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In what city do the two people F and F' say breakfastoccured in? According
to SR (special relativity) in your opinion?
F says that breakfast occurred in Los Angeles. F', in order to get a
distance of zero between breakfast and lunch (which is what
SR gives for
this case), must say that breakfast and lunch both occurred
at the same
place. But he must necessarily determine that zero distance
at the time
of lunch, when he is in San Diego. So he says that, since
there is zero
distance between breakfast and lunch, and lunch occurred in San Diego,
breakfast must have occurred in San Diego (assume that he had a
blindfold on until he arrived at lunch and was driven by a chauffeur).