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Earth's rotating inner core is starting to slow down — and it could alter the length of our days
Live Science ^ | June 19, 2024 | Harry Baker

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 ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; chandlerwobble; core; crust; earthcore; earthquake; earthquakes; mantle; poleshift; potsdamgravitypotato; quake; quakes; science
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To: SunkenCiv
Earth's rotating inner core is starting to slow down — and it could alter the length of our days

Are we gonna have to work overtime ?

41 posted on 06/29/2024 9:12:58 PM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: SunkenCiv
Greta warned us!


42 posted on 06/29/2024 9:20:15 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: IncPen

Nope, it’ll make the day longer but the pay won’t change. What a crock, huh?


43 posted on 06/29/2024 9:36:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: TexasGator

Lol no. 🙂 Guess you use doublethink?


44 posted on 06/29/2024 9:42:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: janetjanet998

Sorry, but you will have to ask that brilliant scientist AOC.


45 posted on 06/29/2024 10:07:16 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist .)
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To: SunkenCiv

It probably just needs some prune juice.


46 posted on 06/29/2024 10:22:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: Tell It Right

I was wondering if this would be a precursor to magnetic pole reversal.


47 posted on 06/29/2024 10:52:47 PM PDT by John Robinson (🍺)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Don’t forget the Moon’s gravitational effect on the Earth’s core.


48 posted on 06/29/2024 11:30:15 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: SunkenCiv
"it could potentially lengthen Earth's days — though the effects would likely be imperceptible to us."

If the change(s) would be imperceptible to us then it must be that the various measurements taken are extremely precise and accurate.
49 posted on 06/30/2024 3:02:47 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40, then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: SunkenCiv

How will Daylight Savings time be affected? Sounds like Federal funded university study is necessary as well as congressional investigations.


50 posted on 06/30/2024 5:00:17 AM PDT by waredbird
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To: SunkenCiv

What, you mean like it just started.??


51 posted on 06/30/2024 5:02:01 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Didn’t Hollywood send a spacecraft of some sort down there and fix this already?


52 posted on 06/30/2024 5:30:45 AM PDT by MrKatykelly (Obama was the proof of concept puppet.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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!


53 posted on 06/30/2024 5:39:18 AM PDT by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


54 posted on 06/30/2024 7:00:27 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Olog-hai
Get your phases right, guys.

Creamy nougat filling is what they meant.

55 posted on 06/30/2024 7:03:18 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (IThey intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Earth’s frequency is changing. Prepare for another extinction event.


56 posted on 06/30/2024 10:21:28 AM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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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


57 posted on 07/07/2024 8:16:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


58 posted on 07/07/2024 8:19:31 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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