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by kijin 811 days ago
Yeah, it might not be funny, but the tautology draws attention to the fact that there is no privileged frame of reference.

In other words, the only thing we can say without qualification is that a second is just a second in the same frame of reference. All other statements must be heavily qualified.

Even things like "A's second is longer than B's" are only valid in some frames of reference and not others.