Well, what’s going on? Want to take the train to Earth? Or was she in a hurry to end this dreamy year? It seems that our planet has recently decided to accelerate its rotation rate and finish its days faster and faster until it goes faster than it really is: in 2020, it broke the record for the shortest day… 28 times.
Instability
Not surprisingly, Earth Days were not regular at first. Thanks to the development of satellites, we have a record of the length of days since 1973, and were able to observe that the Earth’s rotation never lasts exactly 24 hours or 86,400 seconds. Sometimes it is a millisecond longer, other times it is less than half a millisecond. The length of a day increases and decreases cyclically every two weeks.
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This is due to instability “For the complex movement of the center of the earth, its oceans and its
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