• Question: If some one from austrllia came over to england would they of sought of time travelled because austrilla is ealier than us so is time travel sougth of possible in one way or an other

    Asked by horsesrule123 to Hywel, Joseph, Patience, Poonam, Rachael on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Joseph Cook

      Joseph Cook answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      The time is really the same in Australia as it is here. They measure time relative to a different point (by a few hours) to make life easier. It is day or night at different times relative to here because of their different position on the Earth. So this isn’t time travelling at all, I’m afraid.

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      Dr Hywel Jones answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Not really I’m afraid. You change time zones but the length of time that you experience is just the same. There are some instances where if you fly in a really fast jet you could land in America and hour before you had taken off (its about 7 hours behind so if you could fly it in 6 hours this would happen). But of course you were still alive and experiencing time and all that has happened is that you are on a different part of the planet where the time zone is different. Meanwhile, back home where you started, 6 hours have passed as normal. Come your normal bedtime (about halfway through the American afternoon) you’d be tired and want to go to sleep because it would be late for you back home.
      So you have not travelled in time.. When you fly back of course you fly for 6 hours but you land 13 hours after you left so you’ve lost all that time.

    • Photo: Poonam Kaushik

      Poonam Kaushik answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Time on earth is nothing absolute. We all know that earth revolves on its axis in 24 hrs . So the time thing on earth is a kind of our reference scale. ok lets begin with australia so exactly at 24.00 new day begins that means that geographical portion of australia has revolved on its axis fully. becoz as per our scale, we consider 24.00 hrs as complete revolution of earth so by that time england geographical portion has not yet revolved fully on its axis,. Its revolution will complete at 2400 hrs only. So if a person has travelled to england tht doesnt means time travel, it is just kinda our scale tht for our convenience we set up so!

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