The Earth Is Spinning so Fast, We Might Have to Turn Back the Clock

Scientists just recorded the shortest day ever.

The Earth’s rotation is beginning to accelerate significantly.

According to CBS News, June 29 was the quickest day ever observed, measuring 1.59 milliseconds quicker than the typical 24 hours we are all accustomed to.

A new research found that the Earth began spinning faster in 2016 and that, on average, the days have been shorter ever since.

The study’s authors claim that while the rotation adjustment hasn’t made every day shorter, its influence has been significant enough to excite the scientific community.

According to scientists, atomic time, or the common method that time is measured on Earth, may need to be modified by humans if the trend persists, which it very well may.

But that’s not exactly simple, especially given how strongly the IT sector opposes it. Do you remember the infamous Y2K bug?

Earth has never historically maintained precise time. The Earth’s magma core and ocean tides, among other things, can affect how quickly it rotates. And as The Guardian points out, our earth has actually been spinning a little bit more slowly recently than it did in ages past.

Although there are other competing ideas, the study’s co-authors told CBS that they think the most likely cause of the recent rotation change is probably variations in ocean tides.

Rather than adding an hour as we do during leap years, experts have called for the deliberate deletion of time from the global time clock in order to address the problem of, well, time being incorrect.

However, this proposed answer can bring forth a very different set of problems. Negative leap seconds are strongly opposed by the technology sector because of the potential damage they may do to system interfaces.

Meta developers Oleg Obleukhov and Ahmad Byagowi told CBS that “Negative leap second handling is supported for a long time and firms like Meta routinely perform simulations of this situation.” However, it has never been extensively tested and is probably going to cause unanticipated and disastrous outages all around the world.

We will need a cure if considerably shorter days like the anomaly of last week continue, and like most fixes, we might not all be especially pleased with the outcome.

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