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Do events very far away happen in a different timeline?
I am not sure how to ask this question in a concise manner so I am sure somebody out there explained it but I cannot seem to find it.
So I recently watched some videos explaining that $c$ not only ...
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What does hypersurface of simultaneity exactly mean?
HSS - "Hyper Surface of Simultaneity"
Listening to different sources online I understood that HSS for a observer represents the points that are at same moment of time.
Consider a 1d world. ...
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Is there a frame of reference in which I was born before I was conceived?
I'm struggling to understand the relativity of simultaneity and position.
If my conception and birth are separated by time but not space, a frame of reference in which my birth and conception are ...
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Light cone and order of events?
If one event lies outside the light cone of another, can the events to some observers appear in a different order in one reference frame compared to the other, and is this the only time when this is ...
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Why is causality preserved in special relativity?
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I was reading the article Relativity of simultaneity Wikipedia. I couldn't understand this line:
"if the two events are causally connected ("event A causes event B"), the causal order is ...
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