I know. It's out of the question. Let me give offer you an analogy of why foreshortening is not as inconsequential as you seem to think. You try to get a very long slab of wood into a garage. If you introduce it with its length (analogue of proper time or proper length) perpendicular to the garage's door baseline, so to speak, it doesn't fit. But if you foreshorten it by rotating it, it does fit. Picture yourself inside the garage helping others to get it inside. You may even close one ey