I Space-Like Hypersurface: Simultaneous Events?

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If two events are occurring in a space like hypersurface...is it that the two events will appear to be simultaneous from a frame moving with velocity ##v\lt c## and will appear to be occurring at the same spatially position from a frame with velocity ##v\gt c##??
 
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Apashanka said:
If two events are occurring in a space like hypersurface...is it that the two events will appear to be simultaneous from a frame moving with velocity ##v\lt c##
In flat spacetime, yes. In curved spacetime there are no global frames, and you have to be a bit more careful with your definition. It would be better to say something like that they lie in a plane whose tangent vectors are everywhere spacelike.
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a frame with velocity ##v\gt c##??
You cannot consistently describe such a thing.
 
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Clarification: The events will be simultaneous in some frame. They will not be simultaneous in all frames.
 
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