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Full Idea
If there is no temporal gap between cause and effect, then the causal analysis of time's arrow is doomed.
Gist of Idea
Time's arrow is not causal if there is no temporal gap between cause and effect
Source
Robin Le Poidevin (Travels in Four Dimensions [2003], 12 'simultaneous')
Book Ref
Le Poidevin,Robin: 'Travels in Four Dimensions' [OUP 2003], p.226
A Reaction
A number of recent commentators have rejected the sharp distinction between cause and effect, seeing it as a unified process (which takes time to occur).
Related Ideas
Idea 14533 Causation doesn't have two distinct relata; it is a single unfolding process [Mumford/Anjum]
Idea 22619 Causes are not agents; the whole interaction is the cause, and the changed compound is the effect [Ingthorsson]