Approximate speed of light velocity is not a requirement to apply the relativity of time theory. “According to relativity, the order and simultaneity of events are not absolute, but depend on the observer’s frame of reference and the geometry of spacetime. Therefore, two events that are correlated for one observer may not be correlated for another observer, or may even have a reversed causal order. This means that correlation alone is not enough to establish causation, and that causation requires a consistent causal structure of spacetime that respects the light cones of events.”

By my worldview, I was referring to how isolated cause and effect relationships are not as reliable as hard truths as I’ve previously concluded.

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It’s not the only factor, gravity also impacts time’s relativity. Funny enough as you trend towards the speed of light your mass/gravitational pull approaches infinity. It’s understood that when observers disagree about an event they are moving at different speeds, or are in frames of reference with varying gravity. My physics is rusty, but that’s roughly it. The discovery of relativity is not necessary to know that correlation does not necessarily imply causation. Ice cream sales increase in the summer when it’s hot (correlation), but clearly ice cream sales do not change the temperature of the globe (causation).

I guess I’ll have to listen to what that guy was saying to get why he had to being in relativity to explain that correlation is mot always causal