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Ah, but then it's not especially counterintuitive: causally independent events can happen in any order... The layman's notion of "time" implies causality/irreve
by bambax 4y ago
Ah, but then it's not especially counterintuitive: causally independent events can happen in any order... The layman's notion of "time" implies causality/irreversibility.
Events that have no causal relation between all have their own little timeline, and it's not troubling or surprising to consider that they are simultaneous / that we examine them in a kind of superposition.
Or am I saying something stupid? ;-)
- dandanua 4y agoThat's right. We've just learned to believe that there is only a past and a future, where the future is caused by the past. In Special Relativity those are just two light cones, but there are always other events. Though, in a flat spacetime they will affect our future, eventually, because we are moving slower than light. In other words, every event is past to some of our future event. The Big Bang is a different story, because the theory says that spacetime is evolving.