Timeline for If causality reversal is an argument against velocities exceeding the velocity of light, can the same argument be made for sound?
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| Dec 20, 2016 at 13:37 | comment | added | Amara | @Daud This is why I hate these thought experiments. They totally miss the point. The structure of special relativity has nothing to with light (although that is how Einstein found it). This makes mute the point, "What about if I did things with sound?" My point is that causality has to do with the structure of space-time and that is something you are not investigating if you use sound. You can investigate it if you use light because photons are massless and move at the maximum speed. | |
| Dec 20, 2016 at 5:23 | comment | added | Daud | My question is regarding the above thought experiment.. we can use sound instead of light (with an echolocating observer), and the above will "prove" that causality breaks beyond the speed of light.. | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 16:44 | history | answered | Amara | CC BY-SA 3.0 |