Posted on 06/29/2024 7:16:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...The heart of our planet has been spinning unusually slowly for the past 14 years, new research confirms. And if this mysterious trend continues, it could potentially lengthen Earth's days — though the effects would likely be imperceptible to us.
Earth's inner core is a roughly moon-size chunk of solid iron and nickel that lies more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) below our feet. It is surrounded by the outer core — a superhot layer of molten metals similar to those in the inner core — which is surrounded by a more solid sea of molten rock, known as the mantle, and the crust. Although the entire planet rotates, the inner core can spin at a slightly different speed as the mantle and crust due to the viscosity of the outer core.
Since scientists started mapping Earth's inner layers with detailed seismic activity records around 40 years ago, the inner core has rotated slightly faster than the mantle and the crust. But in a new study... researchers found that since 2010, the inner core has been slowing down and is now rotating a bit more slowly than our planet's outer layers...
In the new study, researchers analyzed data from more than 100 repeating earthquakes — seismic events that occur repeatedly at the same location — along a tectonic plate boundary in the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean between 1991 and 2023...
The inner core remains one of the most mysterious of Earth's hidden layers. But in recent years, new technologies are allowing researchers to learn more about the inner core, including that it is slightly lopsided, that it is softer than expected, that it potentially wobbles off Earth's axis and that it has a separate innermost core.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
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Your post is nonsense, no need to prove it.
1. It's a Democrat plot to delay the November election.
2. The Covid vaccines are equipped with a microchip provided by Bill Gates that simply makes us think that the days are longer.
3. It's because Al Gore Mike Pence did not reject the votes from the Electoral College.
4. Zeepers (somehow)
5. The greedy rich who need their taxes raised.
6. The Christian Right
5. Something else (e.g., climate change, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Clarence Thomas, etc.)
You’ll be wanting extra PABA.
Raise taxes another $20 trillion and the government will make progress fixing it.
Wasn’t that also from Avatar?
LOL!
(Earth’s rotating inner core is starting to slow down — and it could alter the length of our days(
It’s Global Warming!!!
Or Global Ice Age!!!
And the core turns out to be surrounded by boiling hot MAGA.
Clearly, we are doomed.
Inner core slowing down would mean bye bye magnetic field.
Here's Mrs. Gray
she's proud today
because her roses
are in bloom...
There's Mr. Green
he's so serene
he's got a TV
in every room.
That’s crazy. There is no core. It’s hollow and filled with gray space aliens. I read it here on Free Republic...
I could use a few seconds/day to get my work done.
I’m not seeing a problem except potentially with my clocks over a month at a time.
The Dog is, as always, on solar time.
YMMV.
Good!
I need more sleep!..…….
It’s the oil being drilled out. It needs to stay into the ground to lubricate it’s axis.
I think the spin from the Democrats is enough to keep the core spinning at the correct speed for at least 500 years into the future.
Doooooomed
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