The ABC of Relativity, by Bertrand Russell, Part 2
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The Old Gentleman Must Have Been Mistaken, or Should He Have Died First?
An Australian millionaire uncle of the guard and the engine driver has left his whole fortune to the guard. Fast sums are involved in the question of which died first. The lawyers on both sides, having been educated at Oxford, are agreed that either the old gentleman or the station master must have been mistaken. Both may perfectly well be right. We who live on the earth wouldn't naturally prefer the view of simultaneity obtained from a person at rest on the earth, to the view of a person traveling in a train.
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