Leslie Lamport: Distributed systems, special relativity and violating causality

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Leslie Lamport explains how special relativity influenced his thinking on distributed systems and causality.

Linked by 2 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including ycombinator.com, maths.org.