Part of Austrailia is +12 hours and Los Angeles in America is -12 hours from Irelands perception.
Lets say it is Monday to Wednesday,
if you travelled from Australia to Los Angeles early on a wednesday morning, wouldn't you technically gain an extra day (like tuesday) so the flight would have never existed on the wednesday? Therefore causing an alternate reality?
I know it sounds strange but i thought it was worth asking.
2006-12-10 05:58:20 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
No.
2006-12-10 06:00:53 · answer #1 · answered by Polo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No alternate reality, just time zones.
I fly frequently from Tokyo to LA -- leave Tokyo at 4PM on, say, Friday -- and arrive in LA at 8AM on Friday. I get to live the same day twice :)
But there's no time travel or alternate reality involved, you're just experiencing some effects of the way we humans have set up our time zones on our planet. We have time zones and the international date line so that when it's morning wherever you are in the world, it's (for example) 7AM. And so when you go to bed at 11PM, it's dark. It's just for convenience, recognizing that the sun is shining on different parts of the world at different times. We could just as easily use one standard 24-hour clock for the whole world, and do away with time zones...in that case it'd be 7AM at sunrise at Greenwich, England...and 3PM at sunrise in LA. They're just numbers :)
2006-12-10 06:04:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Greenwich is only a reference point for the rest of the world to standardise from. Time travel is irrelevant.
It is the same instance of time all over the world.
We only have time zones for local reference.
2006-12-10 06:06:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, time travel does work. Think about the definition of the word 'now'. There-- you just traveled forward in time. Want to go back in time? Think about the meaning of what 'just now' is and you will remember the near past and will have traveled there.
See, it works!
2006-12-10 06:09:06 · answer #4 · answered by Double O 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is relative in all journeys so yes the appearance of Time Travel though miniscule does work
2006-12-10 08:32:21 · answer #5 · answered by jaskoran 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A fellow irishman.
No it's not because when you go back to Australia you'll be back on a Thursday.
2006-12-10 06:05:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep on going and you will find out that true time travel in possible. We just have to develop a technology for it.
2006-12-10 06:03:25 · answer #7 · answered by Noka 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
NO.COZ IT ONLY DEPENDS ON LIGHT REACHING A PLACE.IF U CAN GET TO A PLACE BEFORE LIGHT THEN TECHICALLY U WOULD B SEEING THE PLACE BEFORE OTHERS TIME HAS NOT EVEN STARTED TO TICK TILL LIGHT HAS REACHED DA PLACE.THIS IS BECAUSE WE CONSTRAIN TIME AS THE LIGHT REACHING A PLACE BUT IN PRACTICALITY IT DOES NOT EFFECT TIME.TIME IS IMAGINARY
2006-12-10 06:05:46 · answer #8 · answered by Evil Neil 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ask Dr who
2006-12-10 11:31:54 · answer #9 · answered by la.bruja0805 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the only extra thing you would gain from that would be jet lag.
2006-12-10 06:01:42 · answer #10 · answered by Michelle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because you are not really moving through time, all your doing is resetting a clock
2006-12-10 06:08:01 · answer #11 · answered by tx311 3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋