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Special relativity restricts causal influences from propagating faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.
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COMMON KNOWLEDGE
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That special relativity restricts causal influences from propagating faster than the speed of light in a vacuum is a foundational principle of modern physics and common knowledge within the domain, requiring no citation.

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The claim states a foundational postulate of special relativity: that the speed of light in a vacuum is the speed limit for causal influences. This is a defining principle of the theory and everyday knowledge in physics, making it common knowledge. Retrieved papers discuss nuances like detector models, approximations, or effective geometries where mathematical artifacts or specific conditions might appear to signal faster than light, but these do not alter the fundamental status of the physical law itself.

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  1. Relativistic causality in particle detector models: Faster-than-light signaling and impossible measurementspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  2. Modern Tests of Lorentz Invariance.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  3. Massive Gravity.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. Faster-than-light signaling in the rotating-wave approximationpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. A Review of Optical Interferometry for High-Precision Length Measurement.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Causality of photon propagation under dominant energy condition in nonlinear electrodynamicspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  7. The deep space quantum link: prospective fundamental physics experiments using long-baseline quantum optics.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. The contribution of coherence field theory to a model of consciousness: electric currents, EM fields, and EM radiation in the brain.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Theoretical foundations of the chronometric cosmology.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. Polaritonic quantum matter.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Quantum Information in Relativity: The Challenge of QFT Measurements.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. Time and Causality: A Thermocontextual Perspective.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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first checked05 Aug 2026
judged → COMMON KNOWLEDGE · 9505 Aug 2026
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