Conditions for the Generation of Causal Paradoxes from Superluminal Signals
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We introduce a simple method to illustrate how the Lorentz transformation lead to causal loop paradoxes when they are applied to superluminal velocities. c © Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics. All rights reserved.
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