Causality

Greek philosophers had already insisted that if the cause is a sufficient condition for the revolver, then there cannot be a time interval between them, since in that interval the cause exists and not the revolver, and this contradicts its being a sufficient cause. But today, after infinity and field theory, we understand that the revolver develops over time and is not created all at once. Thus, there is a force of attraction between two masses, but this does not mean that the moment one mass arrives at a place, it immediately exerts a force on the other mass. It takes time for the effect of the force to reach the second mass. What happens immediately is the beginning of the effect of the force and its progression to the second mass. On the legal and spiritual level, it is something else altogether. There, a discussion, evidence, and a ruling are required. Therefore, the offense in itself does not yet create the obligation, and time must pass (although apparently, Tos' and Reka'a disagreed on this in Moots 5, whether there is an obligation by virtue of the offense even before the ruling in the court of law or not, and so on). Therefore, even in the court of law of Ma'ale, there is no reason to assume that this must happen immediately.