Is 51 pages in 13 days a lot for talking to someone on IM?

hey Big Dietz... we need lives, or something, because that's kind of a lot.

Not that there's anything wrong with talking to you, there's just kind of something depressing about talking that much to a person online and hardly ever seeing them in person...

hmm...

heh, Brian and I had a fun argument last period. About time zones. Don't ask...

Okay okay, I know you're all thinking "time zones?! wtf? She's freaking insane," and you're probably right, but just to clarify things, I'm going to write out the question I asked him anyway, just so you can see how thoughtful and contemplative (word? for some reason I am reminded of chemistry, when brian was going over vocab words and said "pol-an-zee! Oh... polarize!") I really am...

Imagine you have 3 people.

All in the same time zone. Simple enough, no?

(wow... I'm fucking brilliant)

Okay... so... Person Z stays in the same time zone, and therefore has 24 hours in a day... right? right. glad we can tell time.

Person Y travels one time zone West each day, and therefore has 25 hours in a day (think about it, I'm right).

Person Z travels one time zone East each day, and therefore has 23 hours per day.

So, after 24 days (calendar days, that is), person x has gone for 576 hours (or, surprise, 24 days), person Y has gone for 552 hours (the equivalent of 23 days), and person Z has gone for 600 hours (the equiv. of 25 days)

They're all in the same spot, and the calendar date is the same for each of them, but haven't they all aged differently?

Does it work?

Aha, I AM brilliant!

So, we spent the period debating about whether the international date line matters, and whether or not they would have aged differently or not (the question "does it work" seems to be the biggest one), and all of that stuff, and I think Brian says they age all the same but I didn't quite follow his logic.

But think about it. Time, and the calendar, are based on the rotations of the earth. If you're "stationary," you have your own certain rotation... what happens when you move and make that rotation shorter or longer?

You age differently than how the caldendar has said you've aged.

I thought of this little problem a couple of years ago, when, incidentally, we were on vacation... in a different time zone. I talked to Katie about it once, but I don't think she really understood what I was saying, because she really didn't seem to care... but this is exciting stuff! Just thinking about it... I don't know if I really care about the answer, just thinking about it gives me a warm, fuzzy sort of feeling in my brain... it makes me feel all intellectual... ahh, to be smart, what a feeling...

Umm... yeah. That's my question of the day. Feel free to send any hate mail to my inbox, as nobody has been emailing me lately and I get kind of bored, and I will get back to you faster than humanly possible.

I don't know... we're missing something. Something has to prove that it works/doesn't work, there's some determining factor on whether or not you can age differently than the calendar or not, but... I don't know what it is. But I don't think it's the international date line, so there.

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