2007-12-27 23:46:40 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Well, I guess that depends upon the kind of watch that you have...
Is it a battery powered watch? If so, it will work fine as long as the battery is good...then you will need a new battery.
If it is a wind up or motion wound watch, you will need to be able to get to it to wind it up (wind up type) or continually move your arm if it is a motion wound type watch. Wearing a space suit might interfere with winding up your watch.
Some agreement might need to be reached in advance about what time everyone would use in space, for example:
Zulu time or military time based upon the clock in England, or maybe Japan time if your expedition originated from Japan.
Without some kind of agreement, everyone would be talking about different times and missing all kinds of schedules and events.
2007-12-28 12:17:27 · answer #1 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The people in the International Space Station use UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, same as Greenwich standard time). That's because UTC is about half-way between the time at the control stations in USA and Russia, so it's a good compromise.
2007-12-28 09:14:06 · answer #2 · answered by morningfoxnorth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hour hand on a good watch rotates at the same speed as the speed at which the Earth rotates, and keeps to the time at which you set it to start with.
I do not know if the lack of atmospheric pressure in Space would allow a watch to run at this same speed.
Never been there!
2007-12-28 08:08:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They will only work in the sense of measuring time INTERVALS, the passing of time.
But since time is measured according to which time zone we are in on Earth, there is no meaning of time in space.
A full rotation of Earth around itself takes 24hours, or one day.
Therefore, countries having Geographic Latitude differences of 15 degrees (360/24) will have a time difference of 1 hour (not taking in mind any alterations imposed for convenience).
That means that in Poles, where there is no meaning of Latitude, there is also no meaning of time all by itself!
The same thing goes for space, unless the astronauts consider the time zone in which they fly over at each instance.
2007-12-28 09:17:35 · answer #4 · answered by CH 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As long as they do not need a radio signal from earth they will work fine. If traveling at higher speed they will show the effect of relativistic time dilation when compared with a watch resting on earth.
2007-12-28 08:39:40 · answer #5 · answered by map 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is not an intelligent question to ask.
A watch is just a mechanical device that moves and or oscillates and count pulses.
It is just that we have let it represent "time".
If you go to the end of the known universe the machine will still work as if it were on Earth.
2007-12-28 11:27:29 · answer #6 · answered by autoglide 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
ur watches will work perfectly well in the space , as far as the timing goes, my friend , it will depend on the default timing set in the watch
2007-12-28 11:52:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
of course the watch will continue running.
they work on batteries and the other factors wont affect it.
i will show thr same earlier time.
2007-12-28 09:38:46 · answer #8 · answered by ketan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to me the watch running on batteries will follow the same time as they follow on earth.......asa there is no effect of gravity or atmosphric pressure on the battery
2007-12-28 08:14:29 · answer #9 · answered by clackris 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋