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Relativistic Cellular Automata

One of the reasons that it may be difficult to model Minkowski space based on cellular automata is that there are no "non-trivial" finite sub-groups of $O(3,1)$, where non-trivial means that it doesn' …
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Retarded coordinates on (flat) spacetime

Let me first rephrase your construction of the coordinate system. Given your curve $C$, foliate the space-time by future null-cones emanating from points on $C$. Call each of the cones $\mathcal{N}_t$ …
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