timelike

== English == === Alternative forms === time-like === Etymology === From time +‎ -like. === Adjective === timelike (comparative more timelike, superlative most timelike) (mathematics, physics) Of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive or negative four-vector norm for the metric signature (+, -, -, -) and (-, +, +, +) respectively. (physics) (of the interval between two events in spacetime) Having overlapping light cones, so that information can pass from one to the other, and one can be envisaged as a cause of the other. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === lightlike spacelike