How does time even work?
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If you flew fast enough (or at high enough latitudes) you could always be at the same time. Always be noon for example.
However every time you passed the international date line you would advance a day on your calendar.
You could spend an entire day with the sun directly overhead, be always noon and then end up going from noon of one day to noon of the next as you cross the date line.
If you flew fast enough (or at high enough latitudes) you could always be at the same time. Always be noon for example.
However every time you passed the international date line you would advance a day on your calendar.
You could spend an entire day with the sun directly overhead, be always noon and then end up going from noon of one day to noon of the next as you cross the date line.
The Concorde had a record RTW westbound flying time of ~33 hrs (Lisbon-Santo Domingo-Acapulco-Honolulu-Guam-Bangkok- Bahrain-Lisbon), so you’d need to be going supersonic the whole time with inflight refueling to be able to make 24 hrs.
The Concorde had a record RTW westbound flying time of ~33 hrs (Lisbon-Santo Domingo-Acapulco-Honolulu-Guam-Bangkok- Bahrain-Lisbon), so you’d need to be going supersonic the whole time with inflight refueling to be able to make 24 hrs.
The Concorde had a record RTW westbound flying time of ~33 hrs (Lisbon-Santo Domingo-Acapulco-Honolulu-Guam-Bangkok- Bahrain-Lisbon), so you’d need to be going supersonic the whole time with inflight refueling to be able to make 24 hrs.
Yes, but in practice you will run out of fuel.
And the days would advance each time you cross the International Date Line, but the time should remain about the same.
Yes, but in practice you will run out of fuel.
And the days would advance each time you cross the International Date Line, but the time should remain about the same.
Yes, but in practice you will run out of fuel.
And the days would advance each time you cross the International Date Line, but the time should remain about the same.
You could theoretically stay at the exact same solar time. Solar time is basically the time you would read off a sun dial, with noon being when the sun is at its highest point in the sky. If you took off at noon solar time and then flew west at a speed of exactly 15 degrees of longtitude per hour (matching the Earth’s rotation but in the opposite direction), the solar time would stay at noon the whole time.
We don’t use solar time to keep time though, because that would mean you’d have to change your clock whenever you moved east or west. Instead, we divide the world up into a smaller number of time zones that (mostly) differ by whole hours, which is more convenient to work with. What that means for your question is that if you took off at noon in one time zone, the clock would keep ticking forward as you flew, until you hit the border of the next time zone. It would then instantly move back by one hour, and then keep ticking forward again. So your clock time would stay roughly around noon, but not exactly.
Also, note that when you pass the International Date Line, the time on the clock will stay the same, but the date on your calendar will move forward by one day.
Time ultimately is not the Earth rotating around its axis or revolving around the sun. These are just things we use to tell the time, and to divide it up into days and years. They are convenient because they happen in regular periods. But time is always moving forward, even if you keep the Sun in the same place in the sky by traveling west.
You could theoretically stay at the exact same solar time. Solar time is basically the time you would read off a sun dial, with noon being when the sun is at its highest point in the sky. If you took off at noon solar time and then flew west at a speed of exactly 15 degrees of longtitude per hour (matching the Earth’s rotation but in the opposite direction), the solar time would stay at noon the whole time.
We don’t use solar time to keep time though, because that would mean you’d have to change your clock whenever you moved east or west. Instead, we divide the world up into a smaller number of time zones that (mostly) differ by whole hours, which is more convenient to work with. What that means for your question is that if you took off at noon in one time zone, the clock would keep ticking forward as you flew, until you hit the border of the next time zone. It would then instantly move back by one hour, and then keep ticking forward again. So your clock time would stay roughly around noon, but not exactly.
Also, note that when you pass the International Date Line, the time on the clock will stay the same, but the date on your calendar will move forward by one day.
Time ultimately is not the Earth rotating around its axis or revolving around the sun. These are just things we use to tell the time, and to divide it up into days and years. They are convenient because they happen in regular periods. But time is always moving forward, even if you keep the Sun in the same place in the sky by traveling west.
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