Advice for your NZ tourism Experience: #8
The NZ minute was tied to the Imperial scale until a well-intentioned move to the metric system in 1967. It was subsequently devalued and revalued according to the whims of politicians, and was fixed at the 80-minute hour for most of the 1980s.That became unsustainable in 1992. Since then the NZ minute has been freely convertible with the exchange rate determined by the currency market. For a while 90 NZ minutes was the equivalent of only about half-an-hour in UK Time Sterling, but it has strengthened and at the current exchange rate it's more like 45 UK minutes.
In an unexpected side-effect of tampering with the laws of physics, all the silly-buggers with chronology has caused the speed of light to slow down dramatically, to the extent that inter-city trains reach sufficient speed to experience relativistic distortion.
Only Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction is available by train. Due to the backwardness of rural NZ, the effects are not updated to include Penrose-Terrell Rotation. To experience the full panoply of relativistic Penrose distortions you must travel by intra-city rapid transit.Belatedly UPDATED with Bonus Relativistic Effects.
4 comments:
Overseas visitor pelts aren't worth much, these days.
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It is awfully handy to have those minutes around before last call, but if you're drunk you can spill them on the floor and people will be time-slipping all over the place.
Now, now, we all know that this is all due to a Riddled time machine mishap. Own up, old chum!
With a bit of a mind flip
You're into a time slip
And nothing...Will ever be the same
You're spaced out a sensation
Like you're under sedation
Let's do the Time Warp again...
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