CAUSALITY A system is causal if the output does not anticipate future values of the input, 1. e, if the output at any time depends only on values of the input up to that time All real-time physical systems are causal, because time only moves forward. Effect occurs after cause. (Imagine if you own a noncausal system whose output depends on tomorrows stock price. Causality does not apply to spatially varying signals. (We can move both left and right, up and down. Causality does not apply to systems processing recorded signals, e.g. taped sports games vs live broadcast.CAUSALITY • A system is causal if the output does not anticipate future values of the input, i.e., if the output at any time depends only on values of the input up to that time. • All real-time physical systems are causal, because time only moves forward. Effect occurs after cause. (Imagine if you own a noncausal system whose output depends on tomorrow’s stock price.) • Causality does not apply to spatially varying signals. (We can move both left and right, up and down.) • Causality does not apply to systems processing recorded signals, e.g. taped sports games vs. live broadcast