Quote: dboy "We do not understand time - it's a theoretical construct. Distance we do
As Professor Brian Cox points out - "The distance between the two points is the same - it’s given by what’s known as the metric, which describes the Earth’s surface. The travel time is usually shorter West-East...a consequence of the rotation of the Earth".
10 metres is 10 metres, wherever you are!
A point on the Equator "travels faster", than a point in the UK, in the sense that it has gone "further", in the same amount of time...but it's all, as they say, "relative".'"
We do, but it is not as you claim. Cox was talking about local conditions. At near light speeds, all relativistic effects come increasingly into play, and the faster you go, the shorter the distance it is to get there. Until, at the speed of light, the distance to anywhere in the Universe is Nil.