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Simultaneity is only relative when events A and B are far enough apart that it would have been impossible for light to get from one to the other between the two events. When there is a single location, it's objective whether something has zero or nonzero duration.

And while observers disagree on their personal measurements of duration, they will always agree about what a clock sitting at the location will measure.



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