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Earth Changes Speed of Spin, Baffles Scientists

02:23 / 02.01.04

Earth changes its spin, baffles scientists
Thursday, January 1, 2004 Posted: 10:16 AM EST (1516 GMT)

BOULDER, Colorado (AP) -- In a phenomenon that has scientists puzzled, the Earth is right on schedule for a fifth straight year.

Experts agree that the rate at which the Earth travels through space has slowed ever so slightly for millennia. To make the world's official time agree with where the Earth actually is in space, scientists in 1972 started adding an extra "leap second" on the last day of the year.

For 28 years, scientists repeated the procedure. But in 1999, they discovered the Earth was no longer lagging behind.

At the National Institute for Science and Technology in Boulder, spokesman Fred McGehan said most scientists agree the Earth's orbit around the sun has been gradually slowing for millennia. But he said they don't have a good explanation for why it's suddenly on schedule.

Possible explanations include the tides, weather and changes in the Earth's core, he said.

The leap second was an unexpected consequence of the 1955 invention of the atomic clock, which use the electromagnetic radiation emanated by Cesium atoms to measure time. It is extremely reliable.

Atomic-based Coordinated Universal Time was implemented in 1972, superseding the astronomically determined Greenwich Mean Time.

Leap seconds can be a big deal, affecting everything from communication, navigation and air traffic control systems to the computers that link global financial markets.

18:41 / 02.01.04

Anyone baffled by this, the solar flares, and other disasterous incidents occuring across the globe, might want to take a look at the Seventh Fire prophecies, as well as some Atlantean theories. In the Seventh Fire ('Fires' refer to time periods, and the first six 'Fires' have all come to past, as well as the beginning of the Seventh), the human race can either choose to return to the old days of love, magick, and peace, or continue abusing technology until it disrupts the electromagnetic field of the Earth, causing several cataclysmic disasters, ultimately distroying much of the human race and their technology, forcing the choice upon us. According to Atlantean theories, this caused distruction of the former civilization. Also, there is some evidence that this had happened about four times before, making this about this the sixth time we've been wiped out. If this plot line is not familiar to you, I suggest you also view the Matrix trilogy, specifically the second movie. I believe the Wachowski brothers were trying to portray that in addition to the Christ/Buddha story, as well as countless other hints and philosophies. The theory really does make everything fall into place--or in this case, everything is falling into pieces.

20:27 / 02.01.04

*groan*

Tryphena Absent

20:41 / 02.01.04

Ahem. This is where we discuss science, if you wish to debate its entire relevance one might suggest starting a thread on that subject rather than attempting to do so here. If you wish to dicuss this Atlantean theory than I would like you to explain precisely and scientifically how our technology disrupts the electromagnetic field, something I suspect you are entirely incapable of doing.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:18 / 02.01.04

Hmmm... that post seems awfully familiar... oh yes! There's one exactly the same in the Magick!

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

23:27 / 02.01.04

Dude!!!! Only Neo can save us!!!!!!!

10:02 / 03.01.04

Oh, great, just when I was getting over my fear of the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:24 / 03.01.04

In an attempt to get back on-topic without the intervention of lizards, Atlanteans, or other manners of shit that don't bother explaining themselves...

OKAY. My grasp of astrophysics is somewhat nil. But this must be a major anomaly, surely? Fifth year running? Is it just me, or is it more likely that the calculations were wrong in the first place, which would just indicate a need to go back to the drawing board?

odd jest on horn

00:26 / 01.02.04

I'm talking way out of my ass here, but here's a theory:

The orbit of earth around sun is not a perfect ellipse. The whole solarsystem is a very non-linear system but is also a strange attractor. I.e. it never repeats, but it stays more or less the same.

So what I'm guessing is that we have dropped very slightly closer to the sun just due to non-linearity and the energy has been converted to spin. I don't know how much we would have to drop for this too happen, but my guess is that it would be very little and very hard to observe.

Lotsa "if"'s.
Any good physicists out there who can comment?

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

07:04 / 02.02.04

I was thinking something similar - maybe a certain convergence of planets has set up just the right gravitational conditions to nudge our spin just that little bit needed.

But if it's baffling scientists, then I seriously doubt I just thought of the correct solution over a coffee reading Barbelith.

08:48 / 02.02.04

its one f---ing second for petes sake
(joke)
i suppose that the nonlinear model that ojoh suggested is most probable but then again we could just all be incorrect
but dnt ask me, im no expert

02:24 / 03.02.04

If it's a phenomenon that we've only known about for 50 years, perhaps the earth slows down slightly over the period of a few centuries, then speeds back up again, and oscillates. Probably in some integer multiple of the orbit of Neptune, or something.

Or else, I'm thinking rays.

20:53 / 04.02.04

I'd tend to think its something like that. We don't have enough data to show if the spin changes consistently or over time. I mean, 50 years? That's nothing in astro time. There could be any number of hidden factors at play. I suspect we'll just be resetting the clocks a lot until someone spots the pattern.