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| Thread ID: 52844 | 2004-12-31 12:50:00 | OT: The speed time travels | george12 (7) | PC World Chat |
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| 309310 | 2004-12-31 12:50:00 | Hi, I was just wondering. It has always been something I have wanted to do, to experience New Years twice in a year. To do this, I mean being in NZ, having new year, then quickly flying to a country where it's not new year yet. But what I mean is, how fast (KM/h) does time travel around the world? Like, at what speed would I need to go for time to "stop" and it be a certain time until I circled the world. Is it possible? I know that flying to auzzie you go back two hours, and it takes three hours. I'm looking for a flight where you go back more time than the journey takes. What speed (directly along the line) do you have to go? I guess 24Hrs / Circ of the earth? Confusing isn't it. Or perhaps I am just insane. We shall see! George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 309311 | 2004-12-31 12:58:00 | Flying across the International Date Line might help. ;) In other words, head East, not West. Timeanddate.com reports that in Honolulu it is currently ~2:55am. I'm not sure how long it would take to fly there, but it looks like it would be your best bet if you wanted to see in two new years within 24 hours. Key thing to note is that when I originally wrote this, it was ~2:55am on Friday 31 December 2004 in Honolulu. |
agent (30) | ||
| 309312 | 2004-12-31 13:07:00 | Maybe not this year, but I'll keep it in mind in a few years :D | george12 (7) | ||
| 309313 | 2004-12-31 13:09:00 | I tink thereis a couple of islands out in the pacific that the date line goes between. Takes a few hours to travel between. Soo havea party on the west one, recover travel to the east over the dateline and have another :D | Raikyn (6293) | ||
| 309314 | 2004-12-31 14:07:00 | So Honolulu is 23 hours behind NZ. And it certainly will take less than that to fly there. So it is possible... Ahhh, sleep time! |
george12 (7) | ||
| 309315 | 2004-12-31 21:50:00 | Be careful not to travel TOO fast to Honolulu, else you may experience TIME DILATION, not to mention LORENTZ CONTRACTION, both effects could affect your system drastically :eek: "Since time dilation affects the rate at which time passes, the total discrepancy between stationary and moving clocks increases throughout the voyage" www.fourmilab.ch |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 309316 | 2004-12-31 23:48:00 | I cant remember all the details but i know some dude did this kind of thing and got three new years eves in one year. | robsonde (120) | ||
| 309317 | 2005-01-01 00:52:00 | If you go to the South Pole, you can have a foot in each year. :eek: In fact you can choose any of 24 time zones just by moving one step in the right direction. :D :D |
xxll (5902) | ||
| 309318 | 2005-01-01 00:56:00 | If you go to the South Pole, you can have a foot in each year . :eek: In fact you can choose any of 24 time zones just by moving one step in the right direction . :D :D What a smart idea!!! :eek: |
~sy~ (95) | ||
| 309319 | 2005-01-01 01:17:00 | I would guess anything from the US midwest west to the dateline would probably work. I remember the first time I went to LA we left at about 7pm (NZ time) and arrived in LA at about 1pm (LA time - 6 hours before we left). We went to Rarotonga for our honeymoon - we left Auckland the day after our wedding, and arrived in Rarotonga on the evening of the night before... we had two wedding nights :p ;) :thumbs: :lol: :blush: Our flight left NZ at (I think) 2pm Sunday, and we arrived in Rarotonga about 8pm Saturday night. You might also be able to experience more than 2 (not sure) if you were in New York (for instance) for new years, then headed west crossing the time zones across the US. The distance between the different time zones however might be too great to make the distance fast enough. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
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