Every event is simultaneous with you at some time: proof?

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Actually the bound in #29 doesn't just apply in 1+1 dimensions. Since both r and a are perpendicular to W, they lie in a spacelike plane whose geometry is Euclidean, so you can apply the Euclidean Cauchy-Schwarz to them.
 

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