1. The great debate: What is the root cause of the moral decay of our society? Consider two recent catastrophic events … Who can we blame for our troubles? Must be caused by the event that came first …

2. Janet and the wardrobe malfunction Bev and Judy get married in San Francisco Event A Event B Observer 1 sees the events as “simultaneous” Observer 2 sees event B happening long before event A

3. Yikes!! What a moral dilemma! Whom to blame depends not only on when the events happened, but where they happened and where they are observed!! Simultaneity is no longer such a simple concept … Causality still holds … another lecture