Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
Absolute time would exist in a causal structure for which the concept indeterminate as to time order lends to a unique simultaneity, i. e. , for which there is no finite interval of time between the departure and return of a first-signal.
More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.
Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.
To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.