Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Why is causality preserved in special relativity?


PART 1:
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 preserved (i.e., "event A precedes event B") in all frames of reference."




Is this an assumption or a consequence of STR? Please explain.




Note: My question consists of 2 parts this is the 2nd part.
Below is a genral version of my previous question question:Breaking the simultaneity.


PART 2:
Let there be three events $A$,$B$ and $C$ s.t: $C$ is the result of Simultaneous occurrence of $A$ and $B$. In other words $C$ occurs iff $A$ and $B$ are simultaneous.
Now as we know in STR any two events separated in space are not simultaneous in different frames. So In some frames $C$ will occur and in some $C$ will not occur which will cause paradox.
I tried many thought experiments to make such a paradox but i failed. In all the experiments that i thought i could not break the causality even by breaking the simultaneity because everytime the fact: "all signals move slower than light" preserved the causality.


So why causlity remains preserved always? Is it due to the fact that nothing can move faster than light?





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