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Inquisitive Mind
2004-07-01 12:31 p.m.
I wonder what it's like to stand in two different time zones. I mean, I've been in two different places at the same time. Flying to England and back, I've passed borders between countries and states so I've been in two different places at once. Being in a plane is always surreal, because I know I'm crossing all these places far below, but really I'm only in a plane. It's like I get on a plane, travel for a long while and just step out in some place completely different. There's no transition. It's not like being in a car where I look out the window and see places going by. Sometimes I get an eerie feeling getting off a plane, as if really I've just been sitting in a little box that stays completely still, while the world is rearranged around me. I'm weird like that, though.So, time zones. There must be places in between time zones, where it's one time on the left and a completely different a step away on the right. What is the time, then? I know time zones were worked out by railroad companies decades ago, but how did they do it? I mean, there is a general area that has a different time zone according to the sun, but how did they mark exact lines where those zones change? And is it possible for someone, say me, to stand at that line and be at two different times? And there must be places where the time zone is technically the same, but really the sunlight is off by half an hour or perhaps fifteen minutes or even one minute. Doesn't that mess people up a bit? I suppose they don't notice. People have gotten very good at not noticing the important things.
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