Can effect precede cause?

Question

Can effect precede cause?

Answer 1

I don't think so.  I think this is a law of logic.  I suppose the cause and effect could share the same moment, but I can't see anyway effect can precede cause.

Answer 2

Cause-Effect relationis simply an illusion provided by the way we see our universe with time always increasing and speeds far from the speed of light. If one moves at a speed very close to thje speed of light, then the cause preceeding effect can be reversed. This will make a space ship arrive at its destination even before it leaves its origin. Yeah yeah its relativity. Einstein taught us how to analyse crazy things.

Answer 3

The connection of cause and effect in providing a reason for some event, action, thought etc. implies the mental activity of some rational being in making or justifying the connection.  Thus the effect cannot precede the cause.

Einstein may somehow have taught prof mut some crazy things, but he didn't teach "us".

Answer 4

Yes but only in fiction. Isaac Asimov fictitious compound thiotimoline is said to show this. The compound dissolves 1.12 seconds before it finally gets in touch with water. The effect, which is the dissolution, precedes the cause, which is the immersion in water.

Answer 5

If you think about it yes, it's always said cause and effect, once that effect has happened it will start the next cause therefore preceding it!   What came first the chicken or the egg?