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 ...
Are we gonna have to work overtime ?
Nope, it’ll make the day longer but the pay won’t change. What a crock, huh?
Lol no. 🙂 Guess you use doublethink?
Sorry, but you will have to ask that brilliant scientist AOC.
It probably just needs some prune juice.
I was wondering if this would be a precursor to magnetic pole reversal.
Don’t forget the Moon’s gravitational effect on the Earth’s core.
How will Daylight Savings time be affected? Sounds like Federal funded university study is necessary as well as congressional investigations.
What, you mean like it just started.??
Didn’t Hollywood send a spacecraft of some sort down there and fix this already?
In a billion years this “global slowing” will become an “existential threat”. So we must act NOW! and give the EPA and all their unelected bureaucrats expanded power to keep “our planet” spinning the way it is ‘sposed to spin ... y’know!
Nothing new. From what I read in the distant past the Earth used to have a 25 hour rotation. That is why we all want that extra hour to sleep we don’t get with 24 hours.
Creamy nougat filling is what they meant.
The Earth’s frequency is changing. Prepare for another extinction event.
Scientists Confirm Earth’s Core Has Slowed Dramatically, Now Moving In Reverse
https://www.ndtv.com/science/scientists-confirm-earths-core-has-slowed-dramatically-now-moving-in-reverse-6051284
At one time it was thought that are driving on the right side of the road COULD cause tornadoes and we should be like England.
serious legislation was considered.
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