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Relativity Denies Global Simultaneity But Not Time's Direction
Relativity replaces Newton's universal global simultaneity (a stack of cosmic instants) with an objective light-cone structure: events in your future light cone are objectively later, events in your past cone objectively earlier, and space-like-separated events have no definite temporal order—yet none of this removes the fundamental directedness of time.
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Tim MaudlinEvidence Quote
“it just doesn't have that foliated structure it has a very different one called a light cone structure”
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:58:49 AM
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