Imagine if geographers mistook the distance between New York and LA and thought they were 30 feet apart instead of 3,000 miles.
Actually, there may BE a place where they are only 30
feet apart, but you can’t get there from here.
Your comment reminds me of one creationist Freeper who said that time dilation means that the universe is both 6,000 years old and 13 billion at the same time.