causality

A question for those who know a lot more about physics, cosmology and philosophy than I do. I'm engaged in a discussion on another forum, and the topic has drifted to the idea of causality. My erstwhile opponent (who is a religious moderate with fundamental leanings, if that makes any sense -...

Split from this thread. Causality is determined by the light cone. Events inside the light cone are causally related to its centre. Events outside the cone are not. The boundaries of the cone are the worldlines of a light ray. If you can break these boundaries (travel faster than light) you...

The fact that anything exists suggests that there is at least one thing that is uncaused. If anything at all is uncaused then we know that causality is not a consistent principle. We cannot use inconsistent principles in consistent logic. We cannot use causality for the basis of any...

An Absolute Cause must exist. Why? ... Because a mechanism of effects cannot be the cause of ALL "things" ad infinitum. Why? ... Because such a position boils-down to this:- (1) There are no absolute (singular) causes. (2) There are only mechanistic (multiple) causes. (3) Therefore, there are...