2006-10-22 10:11:33 · 11 answers · asked by jemrx2 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Isn't the fact that Earth spinning around causing the sun to come up and go down make out the days we live in and so at the finger tip where god spins the basketball it must always be yesterday and tomorrow. Like the international date line. Is there a place you can stand with your left foot in yesterday and your right foot intoday or one foot in today and the other in tomorrow,.? Theoretically?
2006-10-22 10:17:09 · update #1
This is actually an interesting question. If you assume that all the time zones meet at the poles, then close to the poles you could walk through the time zones faster than the Earth rotates. In a single step you could go from 3 PM local time to 2 PM and the next step would take you to 1 PM. Of course, this is just a more extreme version of crossing time zones anywhere. We are all accustomed to "going back in time" by one hour. The whole idea of timezones are just a convenience.
The act of stepping back 2 hours in 2 steps would not change the fact that it was still 3 PM (and a few seconds more) where you started. This whole experiment quickly shows the need for an international date line where the day changes, not just the hour. Without a date line, every zone to the west puts you 1 hour earlier. After 24 zones you would be back at the start but 24 hours earlier. For everything to make sense, your clock must advance a whole day somewhere along the way. That point of advance is called the international date line.
2006-10-22 12:04:40 · answer #1 · answered by Pretzels 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a difference between going back in time and going back in Earth's time. If you were big enough to stand from one side to another you will actually be in the same time period. This is because time is not a clock but it is something that carries you to your future. As in a clock theory time is something that gives you a limit for day and night due to the time when the sun comes up and the sun goes down.
2006-10-22 17:47:46 · answer #2 · answered by Crow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is not a property of direction.
The rotation of the Earth does not cause the sun to come up and go down. The position of the sun is fixed, we are orbiting it. It is the position of the earth that gives that illusion of the Sun going up and down.
The International Dateline is a man made device for our convenience in keeping track of time. Sort of like temporal bookkeeping.
2006-10-22 17:34:59 · answer #3 · answered by pessimoptimist 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You dao't have to go to the pole to keep one foot on one side of and the ohter on the other side of the International date line .you can do that along the entire stretch of the line fom one pole ,viz the North pole to the other (South pole ) along Greenwich.
In the pole , since the direction will be zero , you might be in zero time zone whre there won't be no passage of time . You will go nowhere and be still on no time perhaps !.
2006-10-22 17:50:02 · answer #4 · answered by Infinity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope
2006-10-22 17:14:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you keep your eyes shut tight and click your heels together three times with the right pair of slippers on... problem is it would make you dizzy and you'd fall over, so it is impossible.
Aloha
2006-10-22 17:13:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yea, and if you run around the Pole widdershins on your birthday, you get a year younger.
2006-10-22 17:20:12 · answer #7 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny way to think about it
But no
I wish that could happend
2006-10-22 17:19:34 · answer #8 · answered by ..... 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've read far too many Superman comic books.
2006-10-22 17:18:09 · answer #9 · answered by Otis F 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow. Are you selling some of that stuff?
2006-10-22 17:19:21 · answer #10 · answered by Jim S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋