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Causality Problem
    

This entry contributed by Leonardo Motta

The paradox involving time which occurs when a particle moves with speed faster than the speed of light. In 1994, the problem was dubbed the "Shalimar Treaty," a reference to the popular science fiction television program Star Trek. The causality problem results from that fact that when two causally connected events A and B are connected with a speed faster than the speed of light for a stationary frame of reference, then event B happens before event A.

Causality, Special Relativity, Speed of Light, Superluminal






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