One of essentially the most thrilling issues in regards to the Kansas City Chiefs profitable the AFC Championship — OK, superb, for us it’s by far the most enjoyable factor — is the very fact it means Taylor Swift will likely be in attendance on the Super Bowl! The pop princess has to go help her boyfriend on his massive day, proper?
Well… it form of seems like she will’t?
OK, so this yr’s Super Bowl is in Las Vegas on Sunday, February 11, with kickoff scheduled for 3:30 p.m. What’s the issue? Tay has a earlier engagement! She’s acquired a live performance in Tokyo, Japan that Saturday evening. And the flight alone is 13 hours, to not point out driving time! How might she presumably get finished with a live performance late Saturday evening and nonetheless hope to get to Vegas in time on Sunday to cheer on Travis Kelce? Mathematically it simply doesn’t add up, proper?
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Actually, she ought to be capable of do her present, have a bit of time to relaxation, and nonetheless make it in loads of time! How? Well, it’s all to do with the worldwide date line. The world is split up into time zones, however it could actually’t get later perpetually, proper? So on one imaginary line within the Pacific Ocean, they reset to the subsequent day. That’s the worldwide date line. And while you cross that going eastbound, you all of the sudden soar into the earlier day!
So Taylor can fly from Tokyo to Vegas and — prepare for this — arrive a pair hours EARLIER than she left! So she might sleep in Tokyo, then rise up for a flight Sunday morning, and… after flying over half a day… it will likely be Sunday morning once more! Crazy. A comedy author and Swiftie named Rohita Kadambi identified how Tay’s predicament is much like one in a West Wing episode from over twenty years in the past!
Can Taylor Swift make the Super Bowl from her Tokyo live performance? A West Wing episode from 2001 already answered this: pic.twitter.com/6LBQMSrCVw
— Rohita Kadambi (@RohitaKadambi) January 29, 2024
So in a method it’s not possible for Taylor to get to the Super Bowl… however she’ll do it anyway! With time journey! Isn’t science neat typically??
[Image via MEGA/WENN/NFL on CBS/Twitter.]
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