You begin travelling toward the West at 6 a.m. in your present time zone, circle the Earth crossing the International Date Line, and arrive back where you started 12 hours later. Would you arrive the day before you left?
2006-09-30 01:56:38 · 9 answers · asked by quizkid 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
No, you'd arrive back at 6PM of the day you left. Once you crossed the ITZ, it would be the next day for the parts of the world you were in for about 6 hours (12 time zones, assuming a steady speed), then you'd catch up with "yesterday" again (this is the day you left on). So, if you leave at 6AM Monday, you'll arrive back at 6PM Monday, but you will have also experienced Tuesday for part of the trip.
2006-09-30 02:03:06 · answer #1 · answered by Pandak 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
All of the people who mentioned '6pm of the same day' and 'you travel through different time zones, and return to your own zone' are correct.
Time is relative. Time doesn't wait for you if you go away... It just keeps clocking around at the same pace pretty much everywhere on earth.
Even if you run "away from a clock at the speed of light" - your actions don't actually affect time. "The hands of the clock appear to stop", but they don't actually stop. Time would change for *you*, but not for everyone else, or even for time itself. (Young Einstein left some minor details out to make the movie more cool...)
The international date lines don't affect time, they merely serve as a peg to make a relative judgement of it. If the earth were flat, we'd all have the same daylight continuum and wouldn't need variant time zones.
It's like if you live in one state, and the state next to you uses 'daylight savings time' and you don't. If you cross the border, it's still the same "time", you're just calling it by a different number.
2006-09-30 02:29:20 · answer #2 · answered by frouste 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because you cross the date line again - and you arrive only 12 hours later - however, you do get to experience a different day in some of the areas you traveled - only to move back to the present day in your zone. Don't try to get the lottery numbers while you are in the future, because it is still their present and your present while you are present and your present in your home zone is their present too - only in their zone - got it?
2006-09-30 02:15:09 · answer #3 · answered by JannahLee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, per Einsein, you have to break the speed of light to break the time line. In your case you leave in the morning and get back in the evening of the same day. Once you passed the GMT you were once again in your time frame of the same day.
2006-09-30 02:08:35 · answer #4 · answered by Cars 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no.; though you crossed the dateline, time still goes on here. you would arive here 12 hours after you left by our time.
2006-09-30 02:06:26 · answer #5 · answered by ian r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you'd get back 12 hours later.
2006-09-30 01:59:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, you would just arrive at 6pm that same day.
2006-09-30 02:00:43 · answer #7 · answered by Spaghetti MY 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. It would be 6PM the same day.
2006-09-30 02:02:43 · answer #8 · answered by Vinegar Taster 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes.
2006-09-30 01:58:56 · answer #9 · answered by Benedict 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋