The Earth is spinning faster? I knew the news was spinning faster. I guess we need to raise taxes to find out why the Earth is spinning faster. I guess they’ll find out it is caused by Trump, Republicans , Global Climate Change, white supremacists, gun violence or evil rich people... 🤓
100 years ago was when car ownership began to become more common. So obviously the internal combustion engine is somehow to blame.
Once everyone is driving electric cars the problem will go away, most likely.
I know that it has been awhile since I studied physics in college, but someone explain to me how a body in motion can accelerate without benefit of energy from some outside force? If anything, the laws of entropy tell us that the Earth’s rotation should be very slightly slowing down, thus the days getting longer. And if I accept that greater mass has been concentrated away from the center of rotation, then the net effect should be further slowing, not acceleration.
It would be easier to accept that the means by which we can measure rotation have advanced to the point where the researchers have noted an error in the previous observations and have corrected that error.
Please. Change my mind.
My bathroom scale tells a different tale. Either that or gravity is increasing.
The last leap second added was on December 31, 2016 at 23:59:60 UTC.
I’ve seen a couple of articles recently about leap seconds. Perhaps they are about ready to add one. It’s pretty much a non-issue. There are very few applications that it even matters for, and if they don’t have procedures for how to deal with it, they are morons.