Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: andy_card
Should? Regrettably, life does not conform with the #3fan school of physics. Please explain your "reasoning." [sic]

The friction from the tides of the moon and sun, the atmosphere, and the internal magma should add up to more than a millisecond every hundred years as is now observed.

117 posted on 10/11/2002 11:41:01 AM PDT by #3Fan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 107 | View Replies ]


To: #3Fan
The friction from the tides of the moon and sun, the atmosphere, and the internal magma should add up to more than a millisecond every hundred years as is now observed.

I think you've underestimated it. As I understand it, the earth's rotation is slowing approximately .005 seconds per year, which would add up to half a second per century. That still doesn't present a problem, even extrapolating back 4.6 billion years. I'm not at all sure what you're trying to argue.

123 posted on 10/11/2002 11:53:14 AM PDT by andy_card
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 117 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson