Einstein’s Relativity Consistent With Absolute Simultaneity

Is the A-theory of time consistent with Einstein’s relativity of simultaneity? Many think not. But what about the growing block theory of time? It is an A-theory, and the “present“ can be defined as the edge of the block’s growth, thus a kind of absolute simultaneity. Meanwhile the “weird relativistic effects“ of relativity can be packed into the universe’s history, so that in Einstein’s sense of “simultaneity“, simultaneity is relative. As long as we don’t equivocate on “simultaneity“, there will be no pro
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