How does time even work?
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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.
Almost. The time of day would slowly change as the earth orbits the sun. You would experience one “day” over the course of a year.
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Almost. The time of day would slowly change as the earth orbits the sun. You would experience one “day” over the course of a year.
edit: loving whoever downvoted this without thinking about it
Almost. The time of day would slowly change as the earth orbits the sun. You would experience one “day” over the course of a year.
edit: loving whoever downvoted this without thinking about it
You could walk it, if you did it near one of the poles. At just over three miles North of the South Pole, you would only need to talk ten miles a day.
You could walk it, if you did it near one of the poles. At just over three miles North of the South Pole, you would only need to talk ten miles a day.
You could walk it, if you did it near one of the poles. At just over three miles North of the South Pole, you would only need to talk ten miles a day.
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