If you think that the days are giving less, it could be because the planet has decided to speed up. Since 2020, and for reasons that astronomers are still trying to understand, the earth has revolved around itself a little faster than normal – beating all the records since we measure the time with atomic watches. And the next record can happen in the next few days.
According to the forecasts of the astrophysicist Graham Jones, there are three key dates in 2025 in which the earth can reach its fastest rotation from the beginning of the registers: 9 July, July 22 or 5 August 2025.
In one of these three days, all conditions can align themselves so that the earth approaches – or even overcoming – the current historical record, which is not so old: 5 July 2024.
An anomaly of milliseconds
A calendar day has 86,400 seconds – that is 24 hours. But the rotation of the earth is not perfect and undergoes small variants. These fluctuations translate into milliseconds more or less of the reference timeAnd we can only detect it with the accuracy of atomic watches.
By 2020, the shortest day recorded had been 1.05 milliseconds faster than the 24 -hour standard. But since then, this number has been exceeded year after year. In 2021, the shortest day was 24 hours less than 1.47 ms. In 2022, it dropped to 24 hours less than 1.59 ms. In 2023, it risen slightly to 1.31 ms less.
And in 2024, he fell again, beating the record: the shortest day was already recorded on July 5 of the year …
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Source: Terra
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