Has anyone else had this experience and if so have you an explanation. Could it be to do with the rotational speed at the equator is faster ?
2007-07-29 02:01:19 · 11 answers · asked by Robin C 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Thank you for your interesting answers, just to clarify. I was in my early twenties at the time and was very busy for all of the three years that I lived there so boredom didn't come in to it. What is the person who suggested that my parents were retarded doing on this site , out of your depth mate
2007-07-29 02:27:27 · update #1
It gets dark at around six o'clock throughout the year on the equator
2007-07-29 03:21:44 · update #2
According to relativity, the faster you travel, the slower your relative time appears to be. This would mean that, for an observer on the equator, time would appear to pass slower, than for an observer nearer the pole. However, at the velocities involved (about 1000 km per hour for someone at the equator) the effect would be negligible, and not noticeable, even over someones lifespan. However, I understand that this effect can be observed in the very best atomic clocks, which would run slightly slower at the equator (fractions of a fraction of a second per year).
2007-07-29 02:23:37 · answer #1 · answered by AndrewG 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you measure an hour by a clock then it will be the same anywhere on the planet. (unless you are thinking clocks run at different speeds)
This is not so as clocks are standardised throughout the world to GMT.
It seems that by your logic time just fles by at the poles, this has no basis in truth.
It must be that life is dull at the equator and your time is a drag.
2007-07-29 09:06:59 · answer #2 · answered by Ron S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The feeling is subjective. The life on the equator is more leisurely as you do not have to run hard to surfive. The UK life is more brisk needing to remain always busy. Even for remaining in the same space you have to run fast.Hence the feeling of time running slow on the equator and running fast in the norther hemisphere.
2007-07-29 09:27:59 · answer #3 · answered by Prabhakar G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You were probably just bored. The day is the same length no matter where you live. The speed may be faster, but your still at a fixed longitude on the sphere
2007-07-29 09:05:29 · answer #4 · answered by Yancy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The older you get, the less an hour represents as a fraction of your existence. Time therefore seems to accelerate. Nothing to do with your position on the globe.
2007-07-29 09:12:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Don't worry if no-one agrees with you, coz i do and der's no need to diss you b4 sharing my views. The reason may b dat, there's more hours of sunshine and so the day seems to stretch.
2007-07-29 09:43:51 · answer #6 · answered by lallyna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It is a fact that time goes faster when your in a situation where you are not paying attention to it. Slower when you are in a situation when that is all you have to watch. It is all about perception.
2007-07-29 09:12:09 · answer #7 · answered by Oakine 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You will have travelled further in that hour, but would not notice. It must just be boring at the equator.
2007-07-29 09:28:17 · answer #8 · answered by helen b 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its because memory is a poor judge of time.
2007-07-29 09:05:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If that was true the U.K. would still be in the bronze age.
2007-07-29 09:07:09 · answer #10 · answered by Larry G 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋