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by jamesmaniscalco 1421 days ago
I think OP means “disconnected past” as the spacelike-separated region south of the “now” slice. Boosting could transform points in this region into the spacelike-like separated region in the “future” (i.e. the “disconnected future), no? The points are not transforming across the light cone boundary, just across the arbitrary “now” plane.
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Yes, this is what I meant. By "disconnected" I meant causally disconnected, i.e. spacelike separated. Sorry for not making that clearer!

And yes, you can always boost to a frame such that the "order" of spacelike separated events will change (i.e., reverse which event is above and which is below a line of simultaneity). Since you can't objectively say which event happened first, they must be unable to influence each other, hence "causally disconnected".