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(Message started by: alien2 on Dec 30^th, 2017, 12:39am)

Title: The Proof
Post by alien2 on Dec 30^th, 2017, 12:39am

Prove that dusk and dawn can be simultaneous. ‘This sounds like a dare Harry.’

Title: Re: The Proof
Post by alien2 on Dec 30^th, 2017, 8:08am

'It's a double dare!'

Title: Re: The Proof
Post by dudiobugtron on Dec 30^th, 2017, 5:40pm

As you get further from the equator, the day gets shorter (or longer, depending on the time of year), and the night gets longer (or shorter, correspondingly). It follows that at some place on the Earth, the day is so short, and the night so long (or vice versa) that dawn and dusk occur effectively simultaneously.

Title: Re: The Proof
Post by alien2 on Dec 31^st, 2017, 12:46am

I myself was thinking that we need two dudiobugtrons to solve this riddle. This was a hint. Or the answer. I think. Not that good at science and relativity.

Title: Re: The Proof
Post by dudiobugtron on Dec 31^st, 2017, 3:56am

on 12/31/17 at 00:46:55, alien2 wrote:

I myself was thinking that we need two dudiobugtrons to solve this riddle. This was a hint. Or the answer. I think. Not that good at science and relativity.

It's possible you could find a frame of reference where both events seemed to occur simultaneously. Even [hide]if they occurred on different planets[/hide].

Title: Re: The Proof
Post by alien2 on Dec 31^st, 2017, 3:58am

That's great. I was thinking of [hide]two observers on opposite sides of the planet.[/hide]