Travelling Around the world: Physic nerds, read here, please.

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Foonie

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Can someone please explain to me what happens if I start in Denmark, then fly around the world (going west, into the States and such), and do it in less than 24 hours?
It has really been bugging me, lately, and I can't figure it out for the life of me, and I'm sure there's some logical explanation.
 
Uhhh... no. Sorry.

You end up going back 1 hour 24 times, and you go ahead one day time (international date line). So you end up not having gained or lost a single minute of time based on time zones.

All you've done is waste time flying around the world as an "up yours" to Jules Verne.
 
No need to even think of timezones. You start in Kopenhagen (sry dont have danish letters) at 09:00 CET, fly 12 hours (woo fast plane) and land at 21:00 CETthe same day, end of story.

if you fly east, west, south or north, there's only a difference during flight, not when you're back.
 
The time zone difference isn't actually a difference in time you know, it's just a difference in the earth's axis towards the sun.
 
say an event takes place, if you fly around the world in under 24 hours you can turn back time and warn yourself before the event takes place and change the course of history and become a hero or make a bajillion dollars.... WHY HASNT ANYONE THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE?????
 
Wiz said:
The time zone difference isn't actually a difference in time you know, it's just a difference in the earth's axis towards the sun.
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Yes that was the original thought which made the entire thing not made sense. Since it didn't make any sense at all to me, at first, because I calculated the timezones (dayzone, rather) incorrectly, it seemed like a flaw in timezone system;/
 
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