last minute travel » Idk http://www.lastminutetravelguru.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:21:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 If i stand at North Pole and walk clockwise i could pass the meridian every few mins, am i time travelling? http://www.lastminutetravelguru.com/321/if-i-stand-at-north-pole-and-walk-clockwise-i-could-pass-the-meridian-every-few-mins-am-i-time-travelling/ http://www.lastminutetravelguru.com/321/if-i-stand-at-north-pole-and-walk-clockwise-i-could-pass-the-meridian-every-few-mins-am-i-time-travelling/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:05:51 +0000 Travel Guru http://lastminutetravelguru.com/321/if-i-stand-at-north-pole-and-walk-clockwise-i-could-pass-the-meridian-every-few-mins-am-i-time-travelling/

So im at the North Pole (or South Pole), which ive marked with a flag - my GPS tells me the direction of London, so then i scrape in the snow the line of the Greenwich meridian.

then i walk 10 feet from the pole, with my toe behind the meridian (standing 'West' of the meridian) and then walk in a circle 'East'

it takes a minute or two (in all my padded insulation) and im back at the meridian again
this is the international dateline, ive passed through all of the international time zones in the last few minutes
so that means ive now moved backwards a day!

i do this 7 times and ive moved backwards in time a week -

do this for an hour or so and i could be back from my polar expedition before ive begun!

so, just in case, before i leave i run anticlockwise exactly the same amount of times as ive run clockwise so i dont end up meeting myself going the other way on that long treck back home

lol idk, but i always think of weird stuff like this too

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