参考：「action at a distance」の例文一覧
「action at a distance」のネイティブ発音（読み方）を聞きましょう！
読み方は【ˈæˈæk·ʃən* ˈˈdɪs·təns*】です。下記動画を聞きながらˈæˈæk·ʃən* ˈˈdɪs·təns*を大声で発音しましょう
【絶対聞こう】アメリカ人が「action at a distance」の意味について解説】！
action at a distanceの実際の意味・ニュアンス(遠隔作用)を理解して、正しく使いましょう！
Einstein and his colleagues called this strange communication spooky
action at a distance
.
アインシュタインと共同研究者たちは この奇妙な情報のやりとりを 不気味な
遠隔作用
と呼びました
Yamamoto sums up the history of debate between the theory of
action at a distance
and that of action through medium as follows.
山本は、近接作用説と
遠隔作用
説の論争史を以下のように総括している。
Of course not all pioneers of the Renaissance science were inspired by Hermeticism and advocated the theory of
action at a distance
.
しかし、ルネサンス期に現れた近代科学の先駆者がすべてヘルメス文書に感化された
遠隔作用
論者ということはなかった。
In this way the material world was rationalized and magnetism as
action at a distance
that had been regarded as typical occult force since the antiquity was stripped of magical character.
かくして物質的世界は合理化され、
遠隔作用
として古代以来隠れた力の典型と見なされてきた磁力からはその魔術的性格が脱色されていった。
Therefore Descartes was not as reactionary as Yamamoto asserted.Of course we can say his theory lacks qualitative analysis but the same thing holds true for the pioneers of the theory of
action at a distance
.
たしかに、デカルトの説が定量的分析を欠き、その後の電磁気学の発展に貢献しなかったのは事実であるが、同じことはパラケルススなどの
遠隔作用
説の先駆者についても言える。
Yamamoto’s conclusion might produce an impression that the theory of
action at a distance
finally beat the theory of action through medium, but after Newton and Coulomb scientists have conducted an inquiry into the essence and the cause of electromagnetism and now the mainstream of today’s theory consider it to be action through medium.
引用した山本による科学革命の総括を読むと、ニュートンやクーロンの
遠隔作用
説が最終的に勝利し、デカルトの近接作用説は反革命的な保守反動にすぎなかったかのような印象を受けるかもしれないが、その後、科学者たちは遠隔力の本質と原因を探し、現在では近接作用説が主流となっているのだから、山本がアジるほどデカルトが反動的だったとは言えないだろう。
Even Einstein hated this idea; he called it “spooky
action at a distance
.”
アインシュタインでさえも この考えを嫌い 不気味な
遠隔操作
と 言い放ちました
Thus electromagnetic forces were rationalized as
action at a distance
expressed as mathematical functions and got the status of essential concept in modern physics.
The Renaissance researchers could found modern physics and electromagnetics because they were free from the prejudice that
action at a distance
was magic, occult and therefore pagan.
Porta wrote a popular book titled Magia Naturalis and pointed out that not only magnetism but also magnetization is
action at a distance
and the distance diminishes their force.
ポルタは、『自然魔術』という通俗的な本を書き、磁力のみならず、磁化能力もが
遠隔作用で
あり、その力が距離とともに減少することを指摘した。
In the 17-18th century when Newton and Coulomb made a scientific elucidation of
action at a distance
, not all eminent scientists were university professors.
Neither is it right to regard the questions about the essence or the cause of
action at a distance
as “metaphysical recognition” and be satisfied only with superficial description of phenomena.
また、重力や電磁力といった
遠隔力
の本質や原因を問うことを形而上学的な認識として拒否し、その現象の記述に甘んじることが科学者の態度として正しいということもない。
In fact the idea that the sun and the moon exert a powerful force on the earth is astrological and accepting
action at a distance
without knowing its essence and cause seems equal to accepting mysterious magic.
That said, John Wheeler and Richard Feynman seriously considered Newton’s pre-field concept of
action at a distance
(although they set it aside because of the ongoing utility of the field concept for research in general relativity and quantum electrodynamics).
Certainly accepting the sun’s unidentifiable
action at a distance
as such is occult and not scientific, but if you can find its essence and cause that make it an action through medium, financial astrology can be scientific financial astronomy, so it is not scientific to refuse it as pseudoscience from the beginning.
While Kepler ascribed ebb and flow to the gravitation of the sun and the moon, Galileo denied this
action at a distance
and tried to explain them in terms of the local action, namely the progress and the retrogress of the rotation and revolution of the earth.
Ricker says “It is a surprising and curious fact that the belief in the ideas of natural magic and astrology persisted almost up to the end of the seventeenth century”, but it was because they believed in the ideas of natural magic and astrology that Hermetic scientists could study
action at a distance
as such and Newton could discover the law of gravitation and write the Principia.
自然魔術と占星術に対する信念が17世紀の終わりまで続いたことは驚くべき奇妙なことである［14］と言う研究者もいるが、自然魔術や占星術に対する拒否感がなかったからこそ、ヘルメス主義の科学者たちはオカルト的な遠隔力を
遠隔
力として研究することができたのだし、ニュートンは『プリンキピア』を書くことができたと考えることができる。
Galileo and Descartes proposed a mechanistic worldview and refused Aristotelian teleology and hylozoism, admitting only action through medium between inanimate bodies and denying
action at a distance
.
ガリレオやデカルトは、アリストテレス的な目的論や物活論を否定し、不活性な物質間の近接作用のみを認め、遠隔作用を認めない機械論的な世界観を提示した。