THE RACE WITH THE SUN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 256, 28 October 1899, Page 10 (Supplement)

THE RACE WITH THE SUN.

In these days of quick travelling on land and water it is interesting to calculate some of the ways in which . man could alter Nature's laws (ac», j cording to the London "Daily Kail") I | for its own convenience by means or \ enormous speed. Imagine an aerial i machine capable of travelling at a-ny! rate up to 1000 miles an hour. Ai traveller in such a machine moving in a direction from: east to west could, by making his speed equal to that at the earth's rotation, view the countries and seas of the world in perpetual daylight. Suppose our imaginary] traveller started from , London at 10 a.m. at a speed of 660 miles an hour. As long as he kept that up he woulil be able to arrest the progress of time.' To him it would always be 10 a.m. If he were travelling in'the latitude of the Shetland Islands a speed of onlyj 010 miles an hour would be necessary* whereas at the equator he would have to travel at over 1000 miles an hour. Should he find unending day monotonous, he could reverse his direction, iri which case he would have a quicK siiccession of short days and nights oj some six hours duration; but the length he could regulate by the speed of his machine. . " • ~