 Ted (at the meeting of Alice and Bob) assigns to \(\mathbf{D}\) the time 0, since it is simultaneous (in his frame) with his time 0. Alice assigns \(\mathbf{D}\) (roughly) the time \(-3\) days, whereas Bob assigns it time (roughly) \(+3\) days. \(\mathbf{D}\) is, of course, spacelike separated from \(\mathbf{O}\), and we have been at pains to explain that from a special relativistic standpoint this spacelike separation precludes the (physical) possibility that there is any causal influence upon \(\mathbf{D}\) of the events at \(\mathbf{O}\), or vice versa. Once the labelling of spacetime points like \(\mathbf{D}\) with coordinates is complete, what further content is there, what further could be meant, by adding that for Alice and Ted \(\mathbf{D}\) is real or fixed? Or that for Alice it is past whereas for Bob it is future? If there is indeed no further content, then what possible implications with regard to ‘reality’ or ‘fixity’ or ‘determinateness’ or ‘tense’ can be drawn from the fact that Bob labels this point with a positive number, Alice labels it with a negative number, and Ted labels it with  0?[11]