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The causal past follows from the same covering-space argument with reversed endpoints:

J^{-} (0) = {(t, \overset{x}{ˉ}) : - c t \geq d (\overset{x}{ˉ}, 0)} .

(1)

For

t \leq - π R / c

, the whole spatial circle can send a causal signal to the origin. The lower-left spacetime diagram in part c is therefore completely orange sufficiently far below the origin.

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