(March 1, 2017 at 6:46 pm)Nonpareil Wrote:(March 1, 2017 at 6:21 pm)SteveII Wrote: So it appears that causality does not require time (as you have suggested), but rather causality creates time.
No. That does not follow even from the Wikipedia article that you quoted to try and back it up.
Time is a dimension. Causality is an operation taking place within that dimension.
Read a physics textbook.
You keep saying time is a dimension--like that answers the question. It is a dimension because it cannot be considered a separate thing from space because of relativity theory and reference frames. That has nothing to do with the question. In a universe that consist of one object, there would be no time because causality (relative movement, changes in states) creates "time". If you disagree, tell me why.