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Once again, an event occurs at a particular place and time. In your final
paragraph, both observers are right relative to their own reference frames.
The fact that I am in San Diego at a later time does not mean my breakfast
occurred in San Diego. It occurred at me. In my frame, San Diego happens
to be where I am at a later time. An observer who lives in San Diego,
however, would place my breakfast in Los Angeles. I put the distance
between breakfast and lunch as being zero, the California-bound observers
say the distance is some other number. I would agree with the California
observers that, at the time of my breakfast, Los Angeles coincided with my
location. The California observers would agree that, at a later time, my
location coincides with San Diego. That does not put my breakfast as
coinciding with San Diego--my location did not coincide with San Diego at
the time of the breakfast event.