IF I live in Maryland(-5 gmt) and anyone one outside of my timezone has a different GMT. I live in Maryland and it is 5:00 clock but the time is different outside my timezone and almost everywhere else. How is it that even though we all live in different timezones it is the same time everywhere?
For some that will be easy, for others it might be hard. For others they might not get it. I will give you a hint, most of that is useless information. Solving this means nothing it is just a hard question.
I will of course make harder ones. Tell me if it was too easy, and I will make it harder. if it was too hard I will make it easier. Another hint, is think about about a time zone is and why they were made.
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A Time Condundrum
Started by BLOOD WOLF, Aug 17 2014 02:02 PM
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Posted 17 August 2014 - 03:27 PM
I like that you're doing stupid riddles and trying to pose some kind of challenges on this forum.
Because that's how you respond when someone calls you out for being immature. You go straight for the immature answer, instead of leaving the thread.
What's the point of this? Anyone who falls for this isn't simply getting baited, but also getting outplayed.
Because that's how you respond when someone calls you out for being immature. You go straight for the immature answer, instead of leaving the thread.
What's the point of this? Anyone who falls for this isn't simply getting baited, but also getting outplayed.
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Posted 17 August 2014 - 03:28 PM
Vassago Rain, on 17 August 2014 - 03:27 PM, said:
I like that you're doing stupid riddles and trying to pose some kind of challenges on this forum.
Because that's how you respond when someone calls you out for being immature. You go straight for the immature answer, instead of leaving the thread.
What's the point of this? Anyone who falls for this isn't simply getting baited, but also getting outplayed.
Because that's how you respond when someone calls you out for being immature. You go straight for the immature answer, instead of leaving the thread.
What's the point of this? Anyone who falls for this isn't simply getting baited, but also getting outplayed.
I guessing you cant solve it?
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Posted 17 August 2014 - 03:29 PM
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Posted 17 August 2014 - 03:33 PM
Oh yea, its not a riddle. Its a conundrum. Not an easy one to solve, but I think the answer is obvious enough.
Edited by BLOOD WOLF, 17 August 2014 - 03:52 PM.
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Posted 17 August 2014 - 04:29 PM
BLOOD WOLF, on 17 August 2014 - 02:02 PM, said:
most of that is useless information.
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Posted 17 August 2014 - 04:49 PM
CompproB237, on 17 August 2014 - 04:29 PM, said:
I agree.
I am going to guess that For all that talk in map cost thread about age and being wiser that it doesn't help anyone solve the question.
Not that it is useless as if its not needed, but it is useless as in knowing it wont help you figure it out. just thrown in their to make it harder.
I like how most of the responses are not addressing the problem but addressing the need not to answer it. If you can you can, and if you cant you cant. This is not an easy thing to solve.
Edited by BLOOD WOLF, 17 August 2014 - 04:52 PM.
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Posted 17 August 2014 - 04:53 PM
BLOOD WOLF, on 17 August 2014 - 04:49 PM, said:
CompproB237, on 17 August 2014 - 04:29 PM, said:
BLOOD WOLF, on 17 August 2014 - 02:02 PM, said:
most of that is useless information.
I am going to guess that For all that talk in map cost thread about age and being wiser that it doesn't help anyone solve the question.
Not that it is useless as if its not needed, but it is useless as in knowing it wont help you figure it out. just thrown in their to make it harder.
I like how most of the responses are not addressing the problem but addressing the need not to answer it. If you can you can, and if you cant you cant. This is not an easy thing to solve.
Nah, I was just referring to most of your posts. Useless information.
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Posted 17 August 2014 - 04:58 PM
If we include relativity and time dialation effects, time will not be the same for all of us.
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Posted 17 August 2014 - 05:01 PM
Noesis, on 17 August 2014 - 04:58 PM, said:
If we include relativity and time dialation effects, time will not be the same for all of us.
Close, good answer. That would have been the case. I figured someone would say that and they would have been correct. Time relativity, is what someone is going to look at upon their approach to the problem.
A hint is you have to look at special-relativity.
Edited by BLOOD WOLF, 17 August 2014 - 05:15 PM.
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Posted 17 August 2014 - 06:01 PM
You want a scientific explanation?
The Earth is a sphere and moves around the Sun while rotating a speed that comes close to 24 hours a day (just a little more because the last day of the year actually has close to 25 hours except on Leap year when their is an extra day). The Earth (since it is sphere) is not covered by the same amount of sunlight in one place than it is in another (due to distance and the curvature). But as the day goes on the Earth slowly rotates bringing the one place around the backside and the frontside into the light. It always rises in the East and sets in the west due to the side to side rotation. Timezones were created to show the difference in the time that it is in that place based on the rotation of the Earth and alignment with the sun.
These 2 things are shorter summed up in Time Dilation and Relativity and how Orbit works.
Also if you are trying to say you are moving back in time.... well you are not. You cannot move back in time, only forwards because Time is the measurement of CHANGE not of AGE. Not to mention by moving back in time you could go to a place you know you are on that day and find yourself, which is impossible. Also Time Dilation prevents Time Travel along with Causality. Einstein only proved moving forwards was possible because we are ALWAYS moving forwards but not in time... Age. Time is an equation, and Age is a variable that has no access point.
In reality we are in the same time because time is a measurement not an Age. Also because the Sun never stops shining theoretically we are always on the same day. Its also because we are all on a planet rotating with no beginning or end so to say that we have the same timezone could be correct because one day in any timezone is a day in any other timezone so we could say: We all live on Earth which is in this Galaxy one of nine timezones in the Solar System making us one single Timezone.
Also I don't know what the question was about because I never read it. I saw a you say something about Everyone having the same time and then someone said Relativity and so my Nerd brain went overload.
The Earth is a sphere and moves around the Sun while rotating a speed that comes close to 24 hours a day (just a little more because the last day of the year actually has close to 25 hours except on Leap year when their is an extra day). The Earth (since it is sphere) is not covered by the same amount of sunlight in one place than it is in another (due to distance and the curvature). But as the day goes on the Earth slowly rotates bringing the one place around the backside and the frontside into the light. It always rises in the East and sets in the west due to the side to side rotation. Timezones were created to show the difference in the time that it is in that place based on the rotation of the Earth and alignment with the sun.
These 2 things are shorter summed up in Time Dilation and Relativity and how Orbit works.
Also if you are trying to say you are moving back in time.... well you are not. You cannot move back in time, only forwards because Time is the measurement of CHANGE not of AGE. Not to mention by moving back in time you could go to a place you know you are on that day and find yourself, which is impossible. Also Time Dilation prevents Time Travel along with Causality. Einstein only proved moving forwards was possible because we are ALWAYS moving forwards but not in time... Age. Time is an equation, and Age is a variable that has no access point.
In reality we are in the same time because time is a measurement not an Age. Also because the Sun never stops shining theoretically we are always on the same day. Its also because we are all on a planet rotating with no beginning or end so to say that we have the same timezone could be correct because one day in any timezone is a day in any other timezone so we could say: We all live on Earth which is in this Galaxy one of nine timezones in the Solar System making us one single Timezone.
Also I don't know what the question was about because I never read it. I saw a you say something about Everyone having the same time and then someone said Relativity and so my Nerd brain went overload.
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Posted 17 August 2014 - 06:27 PM
I am amazed. You hit the nail on the head.
"How is it that even though we all live in different timezones it is the same time everywhere?"
I Never thought that anyone would look beyond the earth, and here I thought I was being sneaky.
"How is it that even though we all live in different timezones it is the same time everywhere?"
I Never thought that anyone would look beyond the earth, and here I thought I was being sneaky.
Edited by BLOOD WOLF, 17 August 2014 - 06:31 PM.
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BLOOD WOLF, on 17 August 2014 - 02:02 PM, said:
IF I live in Maryland(-5 gmt) and anyone one outside of my timezone has a different GMT. I live in Maryland and it is 5:00 clock but the time is different outside my timezone and almost everywhere else. How is it that even though we all live in different timezones it is the same time everywhere?
For some that will be easy, for others it might be hard. For others they might not get it. I will give you a hint, most of that is useless information. Solving this means nothing it is just a hard question.
I will of course make harder ones. Tell me if it was too easy, and I will make it harder. if it was too hard I will make it easier. Another hint, is think about about a time zone is and why they were made.
For some that will be easy, for others it might be hard. For others they might not get it. I will give you a hint, most of that is useless information. Solving this means nothing it is just a hard question.
I will of course make harder ones. Tell me if it was too easy, and I will make it harder. if it was too hard I will make it easier. Another hint, is think about about a time zone is and why they were made.
it depends... you need to answer me first if you view time as linear or relative...
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