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To: Arthur McGowan
Actually, the temporal order of events is subject to the observer's position in space. Er, well, one could adjust for distance and assume that A occured before B -- but then, a real event does not happen without an observer -- so... I'm so confused!
196 posted on 03/29/2003 7:28:05 PM PST by GregoryFul
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To: GregoryFul
Some events are temporally ordered absolutely. Things outside the light cone of an event (forward branch) must come after. There is no Lorenz transformation that can make these events simultaneous.

Events inside the light cone may be simulaneous in some reference frame.
200 posted on 03/29/2003 8:59:32 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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