Understand Spacelike Timelines: Carroll Page 71

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Hello can someone help me understand the difference between Spacelike timelines and the two others found in Carroll page 71?
 
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sqljunkey said:
Hello can someone help me understand the difference between Spacelike timelines and the two others found in Carroll page 71?
Carroll describes and explains spacelike in an earlier chapter of those notes.
 
Why don't you start at the beginning, like page 6 and 7?

I see PeroK beat me to it :)
 
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The only way you could be at page 71 with this question is if you skipped some of the earlier stuff. Don’t do that, it just wastes everyone’s time.

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