Faster than light travel violates causality by enabling retrocausality or time travel paradoxes
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SUPPORTED
the evidence backs this
confidence 86/100
Established physics and philosophical analyses consistently indicate that faster-than-light travel permits backward causation, thereby violating standard causality and generating time travel paradoxes.
Evidence for · 3
Paradoxes of Time Travel
2018 · cited by 47
This work details how causal paradoxes, backward causation, and time travel issues naturally emerge when considering temporal violations and related physical concepts.
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Lectures on faster-than-light travel and time travel
2019 · cited by 19
These lecture notes comprehensively analyze superluminal travel and spacetime geometries, detailing the associated time travel paradoxes and their proposed resolutions.
Oliver Heaviside: an accidental time traveller
2018 · cited by 2
This historical and physical paper discusses faster-than-light charged particles and the classic time travel paradoxes associated with sending information into the past.