If a person was to walk east and keep walking east how far would this person have to walk before it became W?

Question

(west)or vice versa lol

Answer 1

Philosophically or technically speaking, if you mean his heading, it will always be east. If you mean his location, it would be reletive to who's perspective.

To the walkers perspective, he also would never be heading west, or be located west, because west would always be behind him, never ahead of him.

If you mean relative to a second persons perspective, and assuming he's standing on the line that the walker is walking and standing in place, or if it was relative to a fixed point, he would still never be heading west, but after walking 1/2 the circumfrence of the path, he would be in the west, or to the west.

If you mean relative to multiple peoples perspective, you would have to walk east 1/2 the circumfrence from the westernmost person.

To sum it up, reletive to the person walking, they would never be in the west or heading west. Relative to another person or point, they would be in the west after 1/2 the circumfrence from the westernmost point, although they would still never be heading west.

The only caveat is that you are either talking about true east/west, or east/west relative to the way a person is facing. If someone was facing one way, and you were walking east of them and they turned around, you would now be heading west relative to thier perspective direction. On this account however, the walker would be heading north relative to his own perspective, but could suddenly be heading south relative to his perspective if he turned around. He could end up heading east or west relative to his perspective if he walked sideways respectivly.

Answer 2

Until he reaches the eastern pole. If there isn't one, then he never starts heading west. If there was no north or south pole, then a person who heads north infinitely would still be heading north.

Allow me to explain a bit more concretely: The north/south direction is an understanding of moving towards or away from a point. East and west, however, are defined by the direction a person is moving relative to these poles. If one were to define north/south as a circular axis rather than two points, and say someone moving clockwise around the circle as percieved from some given posistion is moving north, then they would always be moving north as long as they continue traveling along the envisioned plane in the same direction. This is sort of how we view east/west: along a given lattitude, we view it as moving clockwise or clockwise if we were to view the globe from over the north pole, for instance.

My this certainly is an overly elaborate explanation isn't it. Anyway, I'm reminded of the old cartoon show of Flash Gordon (based on the, what, 70s live action TV show?) where Flash was surprised that the planet had an eastern pole...

Answer 3

If you continued to walk in an East direction--it would never become west until you turned around and went in the opposite direction. You would always be facing East.

Answer 4

Well, if you had a bridge to cross oceans and the supplies to survive, you could spend the rest of your life walking East, or visa versa.

It is just a matter of direction, like clock-wise or counter-clockwise. If you put your finger on a clock and start circling clockwise (1, 2, 3...), you can go around once or 100 times and unless you change direction, you are still going clockwise.

(This does not work for North/South - you would change direction at the pole.)

Answer 5

East and West are not locales, but cardinal directions. You FACE East, you FACE West.

At the north and south poles though, you can move to the western hemisphere from the eastern and back again, in a second :)

Answer 6

That only works if you are going North/South, I'm afraid. If you are going East, you will never just transition to West like you would N/S.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

WOW (West or What?)!!!!
That is a good question - which already has had some very good answers - so I won't even attempt to compete with them!! Whoops - I just have!!!
But I haven't answered your question - whoops - I just have!!!

Answer 9

From his starting point, as soon as he turns around, he is west.

Answer 10

I believe that such mysteries should remain unresolved...