The “time” utilized by special relativity as the fourth coordinate of the spacetime continuum is in some sense illusory, too, since as we’ve seen it is not true time at all. It is “time” only in the way the position of a clock’s hands depict time. A moving indicator on a clock face can have any position, but all such configurations exist simultaneously in spacetime. It is consciousness that determines which position the clock’s hands are assuming right now.
