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  2. Propinquity - Wikipedia

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    Propinquity can mean physical proximity, a kinship between people, or a similarity in nature between things ("like-attracts-like"). Two people living on the same floor of a building, for example, have a higher propinquity than those living on different floors, just as two people with similar political beliefs possess a higher propinquity than ...

  3. Proximity principle - Wikipedia

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    These are not in any specific order, but they are important to consider to fully understand the principles of attraction. The other principles are the elaboration principle , the similarity principle, the complementarity principle, the reciprocity principle, and the minimax principle.

  4. Theory of relativity - Wikipedia

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    General relativity explains the law of gravitation and its relation to the forces of nature. [2] It applies to the cosmological and astrophysical realm, including astronomy. [3] The theory transformed theoretical physics and astronomy during the 20th century, superseding a 200-year-old theory of mechanics created primarily by Isaac Newton.

  5. Action at a distance - Wikipedia

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    Coulomb's law and Newton's law of universal gravitation are based on action at a distance. Historically, action at a distance was the earliest scientific model for gravity and electricity and it continues to be useful in many practical cases. In the 19th and 20th centuries, field models arose to explain these phenomena with more precision.

  6. Law of attraction - Wikipedia

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    Law of attraction may refer to: Electromagnetic attraction; Newton's law of universal gravitation; Law of attraction (New Thought), a New Thought belief;

  7. Attractor - Wikipedia

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    Visual representation of a strange attractor. [1] Another visualization of the same 3D attractor is this video.Code capable of rendering this is available.. In the mathematical field of dynamical systems, an attractor is a set of states toward which a system tends to evolve, [2] for a wide variety of starting conditions of the system.

  8. Tobler's first law of geography - Wikipedia

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    Waldo Tobler in front of the Newberry Library. Chicago, November 2007. The First Law of Geography, according to Waldo Tobler, is "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." [1] This first law is the foundation of the fundamental concepts of spatial dependence and spatial autocorrelation and is utilized specifically for the inverse distance ...

  9. Introduction to general relativity - Wikipedia

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    This theory successfully predicts phenomena such as gravitational time dilation, light bending near massive objects, and black holes. [ 1 ] By the beginning of the 20th century, Newton's law of universal gravitation had been accepted for more than two hundred years as a valid description of the gravitational force between masses.