I challenge the intelligent Yahoo community to answer this question....Is the length of the day affected when travelling on a jetliner? Assume that the starting point and the end point of the trip are on the same lattitude.
2007-06-01 06:58:44 · 6 answers · asked by Joline 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
doesn't change the fact that back at home things are still going forward, doesnt' change the fact that things ahead of you are still going forward. everything is still happening in real time. even if you fly back from an airplane, you can't reverse the time. you can' t reverse peoples thinkings. if it can go back in time like all the way back a year or so then it is but it's not. this is too easy. and you're still growing, technology is still advancing even if your flying in a airplane.
2007-06-01 07:03:44 · answer #1 · answered by LD 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes and no.
I say this because while it is definately true that to observers on the ground, they will see someone's 'clock' (be it a watch, heart rate or what have you) tick slower than their own stationary clock on earth, and hence it would appear that a person in an airplane is aging slower than those on the ground. As a result observers measuring the time of flight of an airplane measure a time that is ever-so-slightly longer than someone measuring this time of flight on the actual aircraft.
Now the reason I say 'no' is because this 'ever-so-slight' difference in time is really REALLY small. The difference is essentially negligible at these relatively slow speeds, that is slow relative to the speed of light.
However if you were to travel near the speed of light, these difference in time-of-flights become significant. While we have yet to travel at any significant fraction whatsoever of the speeed of light, we have been able to observe effects like this on subatomic particles in particle accelerators.
So in conclusion, yes a plane can be a time machine, but you won't travel very far in time at all unless you can get that plane moving close to the speed of light.
2007-06-01 07:18:55 · answer #2 · answered by Mikey C 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
latitude has nothing to do with time zones, longitude lines divide the timezones. Einsteins theory of relativity explains there is a relationship between velocity and time. the faster an object travels the slower time moves, this is why it is physically imposible for anything to travel faster than the speed of light, The speed of light is the limit of this phenomenon, When traveling at 500mph in an airplane, time moves slightly slower, but you are talking about fractions of a second difference over the course of hours of flying so it is really insignificant.
This theory broke open the door to satelite communications, satilites in orbit travel so fast that this actually matters. Once the theory was understood, the electronics could compensate for the time difference.
2007-06-01 07:06:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, so is a turtle - anything that moves is a time machine. Compared to a non-moving observer, the clock on a moving object goes slower. But at slow speeds compared to the speed of light, the effect is almost impossible to measure.
2007-06-01 19:21:23 · answer #4 · answered by squeezie_1999 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is like asking if a 16 wheeled truck is going down the highway at 60 mph. It collides with a bee head on, did the truck slow down?
Well yes, is it worth working out the problem NO.
So to answers your question, your speed does influence time, but you are talking about an airplane. If you said the space shuttle then its worth measuring though!
2007-06-01 07:09:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time may slow down to a tiny degree for passengers in an air plane, this does not make the air plane a time machine.
2007-06-05 03:30:12 · answer #6 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋