Monday, May 11, 2015

ANSWER to The Puzzler for April 2015: Cleopatra Time Machine

Question: If Cleopatra had a time machine, would it be a longer journey through time for her to visit the past and see the Great Pyramid being built, or visit the future and see a iPhone being built today? Bonus question: How much longer in years is the longer of the two trips?
 

 
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Answer:  

Believe it or not, if Cleopatra had a time machine and used it to travel to the past to see the Great Pyramid being built, that would be a much longer trip through time than if she traveled to the future to see an iPhone being built today!

Bonus answer:
From Cleopatra's time in the first century BC back to the time of the building of the Great Pyramid in 2500 BC is 500 years longer than from our present day back to Cleopatra's era.

This means that:
The Great Pyramid builders seemed more ancient to Cleopatra than Cleopatra seems to us today.



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