EARTH'S
SPIN KEEPS GETTING FASTER & FASTER
From
CBS News: "Earth is spinning faster than it used to. Clocks
might have to skip a second to keep up."
Updated
on: March 27, 2024 / 1:45 PM EDT / AP
"Earth's
changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks
and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only
for a second.
For
the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider
subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the
planet is rotating a tad faster than it used to. Clocks may have
to skip a second — called a 'negative leap second' —
around 2029, a study in the journal Nature said Wednesday.
'This
is an unprecedented situation and a big deal', said study lead
author Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution
of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. 'It's
not a huge change in the Earth's rotation that's going to lead
to some catastrophe or anything, but it is something notable.
It's yet another indication that we're in a very unusual time'."
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