 Any good text in special relativity will sooner or later prove that for any pair of spacelike separated points (but let us continue to call them \(\mathbf{O}\) and \(\mathbf{D})\) there is precisely one admissible inertial frame (with \(\mathbf{O}\) as origin) in which \(\mathbf{O}\) and \(\mathbf{D}\) are simultaneous, an infinity of admissible inertial frames in which \(\mathbf{D}\) is assigned a positive number (that is, in which \(\mathbf{O}\) occurs before \(\mathbf{D})\), and an infinity of other admissible inertial frames in which \(\mathbf{D}\) is assigned a negative number (that is, in which \(\mathbf{D}\) occurs before \(\mathbf{O})\). What metaphysical significance could be gleaned from the fact that some “observers” (the usual anthropomorphized way to refer to admissible inertial frames) at \(\mathbf{O}\) must assign positive times, some negative times, and one time 0 to the distant event \(\mathbf{D}\), which, again, can not be influenced by and can not itself influence the events at \(\mathbf{O}\), according to special relativity at least?