Chapt Disc: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 16: -Cost of Time Travel-

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 190367



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:
>
> On 5/1/2011 8:19 PM, Steve wrote:
> >
> >>> ... Purely to illustrate ...
> >>>
> >>> 9 mo X 4wks/mo X 5 days/wk X 4 hrs/day = 720 HOURS
> >>>
> >>> Hermione is actually TWO YEARS OLDER than everyone else ...
> >>>
> >>> Just a random thought.
> 
> Bart:
> ...
> 
> 24 hours = one day
> 72 hours = 3 days.
> 720 hours = 30 days.
> 
> Where did you get 2 years?
> 
> Bart
>

Sorry, mistyped, it should be 720 days. And, it something of an estimate since there are more than 4 weeks (28 days) in a month. 

Wait a minute, let me review that calculation again...

...tick...tick...tick...tick...

Damn, it is 720 hours, so only 30 days.

Well that doen't shoot the theory down, but it certainly softens it massively. Rats!

Thanks for the correction.

But the underlying point is that there is a degree of time dilation. Everyone in their own framework experiences linear time, however, from her own internal perspective, Hermione's days are 28 hours instead of 24. From the external perspective, from everyone else's view, the days are simply 24 hours long. 

How much time dialation occurs depends on how much Hermione used the Time Turner. If we assume it was for classes only, then she only extended her day by a few hours. If she used it for homework, and other non-specific things, then the total could be much higher. 

Though in the end, the Time Dilation is still days per year, not years per year as in my original assumption. 

Though that does depend on how and when the Time Turner is used. If you turn back a full year, then you relive that year, your physical self has to endure it twice, making you one year older than every one else who live in non-TT linear time. 

It gets very confusing. And sorry for the confusion that I personally added to it. 

Steve/bboyminn