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.
It's a complicated situation that involves physics, global power politics, climate change, technology and two types of time.
It's a complicated situation that involves physics, global power politics, climate change, technology and two types of time.
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
For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our
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. Wednesday's study in a scientific journal says that clocks may have to skip in a second — called a “negative leap second” — around 2029. Ice melting at both of Earth’s poles has been counteracting the planet's burst of speed and is likely to have delayed the global second of reckoning by about three years. It’s a complicated...
Scientists have observed for the first time that the Earth is fastly spinning. Since it's rotating faster than before, clocks may have to skip a second.
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