Thursday, June 4, 2015

ANSWER to The Puzzler for May 2015: John Adams Time Machine

Question: If John Adams, second US President, jumped into a time machine in the last year of his life, would he take a quicker trip back into the past to witness the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, or forward into the future to witness the day that Google first appeared on the world wide web?

Bonus question: How much longer in years is the longer of the two trips?

 

 
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Believe it or not, if John Adams had a time machine and used it to travel to the past to see the Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth rock, that would be a much longer trip through time than if he traveled to the future to see the first day that Google was born!

Bonus answer:
From John Adam's final year of life in 1826 back to the time of the Pilgrim's landing on Plymouth Rock in the year 1620 is 34 years longer than the trip he would take into the future to see the first Google search results in 1998.

This means that:
The Pilgrims seemed more ancient to John Adams than John Adams seems to us today.


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