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What makes writing [about] relativity so tricky is this: Built into ordinary language — in its use of tenses, for example — are many implicit assumptions about the nature of temporal relations that we now know to be false. Most importantly, we have known since 1905 that when you say that two events in different places happen at the same time you are not referring to anything inherent in the events themselves. You are merely adopting a conventional way of locating them that can differ from other equally valid conventional assignments of temporal order which do not have the events happening at the same time.
