This question arose after reding Dan Brown's book Angels and Demons. The jet in the book is real and if you were to go from Australia to Europe FOR EXAMPLE is there any chance that you would be able to live the same hour twice? Taking into account the different time zones?
2006-11-27 02:41:56 · 16 answers · asked by Joanne B 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
yes you could but no you can not change things that you have done for that hour.
2006-11-27 02:45:35 · answer #1 · answered by frogonmybutt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is very possible to live the same hour twice. All you have to do is fly west and the time moves backwards. Probably the easiest place to do this will be by crossing the date line (which runs down the middle of the pacific ocean). By moving across this line from the west to the east (say from Australia to Hawaii) you move back almost a whole day. f course you'd lose the same amount of tme going the other way so unless you stay at the destination you won't gain any time
2006-11-27 02:50:27 · answer #2 · answered by purmusuk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you could. And some have done.
For New Year's Eve 1999/2000 some people celebrated midnight in London and then jumped on Concorde and flew to New York to arrive 'before midnight local time'. Thus, the were able to claim that they celebrated the arrival of the new millenium twice.
Nb. You have to fly east to west as flying west to east you're actualy going backwards in time. Eg. When it's 10am in London, it's (say) 6pm in India - so it's no good going that direction!!!
2006-11-27 02:54:41 · answer #3 · answered by skiparoouk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess if you were right on the edge of a time zone and spent one hour in one and then drove across into the other time zone you could essentially spend the same "hour" but it wouldn't actually be the same hour of your life. It would just look like that on your watch.
2006-11-27 02:51:29 · answer #4 · answered by Andrea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I ve been there, well not for long, bt I live in Saudi Arabia, n i celebrated christmas eve once on the airplane to Dubai, and once in Dubai, coz there is an hour difference between the two countries and one hour in the plane, so my first chritmas was in the middle of the flight, and once in the Dubai internationnal airport
2006-11-27 03:42:10 · answer #5 · answered by FEK 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't really be the same hour. Time is a human concept and the measurement of it is made by humans - but that hour would need to be "repaid" at some stage eg when you returned to the previous time zone
2006-11-27 02:45:35 · answer #6 · answered by big pup in a small bath 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I recently flew from eastern Russia to Canada and managed to land11PM one half hour before I took off. It was because of time zones difference between kazakhstan and Turkey.
2006-11-27 06:49:32 · answer #7 · answered by derivedfool 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you cannot literally turn back time, only live that our again. for example i went on a connecting flight from atlanta to hunstville and we went back an hour. but you just go further back in the time zone so you get much more jet lag then you would do normally. its horrible.
2006-11-27 05:32:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can live in the same hour for 24 hour time zones maximum.
2006-11-28 12:44:07 · answer #9 · answered by cosirius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
flying to the east at a high rate of speed. SR-71 Blackbird or space shuttle could reach those speeds
2006-11-27 02:47:19 · answer #10 · answered by JT 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I flew from Australia to the UK in July so effectively, I "lived" the same day tow times. You don't even really realise it though. so it's nothing special.
2006-11-29 06:31:51 · answer #11 · answered by napally 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋