So there's three men one lives in Los Angeles, one lives in New York and one lives London. Which one lives to the west and which lives to the east of the others?

The guy in New York lives to the west of the one in London and to the East of the on in LA.

The other 2, its about how you want to describe it. the on in the LA is to the West of the other 2 or..
tot he West of the one living in the NewYork and East of the one in London

And the oposit is true of the in London.......

but there is no such thing as east or west it's all relative to where in the world you are

Prezes covered that by saying "The guy in New York lives to the west of the one in London and to the East of the on in LA."

im just proving my point that there is no such thing as the far east and the west and such

Yes there is. Just like there is right and left, but they change as your perpective changes.

It also depends on which way you define as north. The decision we use today is sort of arbitrary, simply because the people who made the decisions wanted to be in the top half of the world.

I am still not exactly sure what this has to do with relativity.

you and me both...

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It also depends on which way you define as north. The decision we use today is sort of arbitrary, simply because the people who made the decisions wanted to be in the top half of the world. I am still not exactly sure what this has to do with relativity.

Thats the privalige of discovering thngs, you get to decide how they are named.

Also, North is defined by the magnitic fields. This has some what changed now, with more accurate meassurements, we cant tell that the magnetic north is not in the same spot at the geographic north anymore. Also the magnetic field that attacts compass needles to the magnetic north will swap in the future.