Don Feromeno nodded and smiled. “Then let us assume that your purely imaginary aircraft
is capable of traveling at the rate of 24,000 miles per hour or that, in an hour's time,
you can circumnavigate the earth. In that case, starting from Lima at noon on Monday, and
rushing eastward, you would arrive in Barcelona at 6.30 P. M. on Monday, though
your watch would show it to be 12.15 P. M. You would reach Calcutta at
1 A. M. Tuesday, although still only 12.20 on Monday by your watch. At Hawaii
you would find time had leaped back to 7.30 A. M. Monday, despite the fact that
your watch showed 12.45 of the same day, and at 1 P. M. on Monday by your watch
you would be back in Lima where the clocks would prove to that it was 2 P. M.
despite the fact that you had been absent only one hour.