Scientists are left confused after finding that the earth is spinning faster than usual – making days shorter than usual.
New measurements by the British national physical laboratory show that the earth is currently spinning faster than half a century ago.
On June 29, the full rotation of the earth took 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours – the shortest day had been recorded.
Scientists have warned that, if the rate of rotation continues to speed up, we might need to delete one second from our atomic clock.
Researchers at Meta said the second leap would have a colossal effect on technology and be a “main source of pain” for hardware infrastructure.
“The impact of the second negative jump has never been tested on a large scale; This can have a destroying effect on software that relies on timers or schedules, “a blog post on the topic, written by researchers Obekhov and Ahmad Byagowi, claimed.
“However, each second jump is the main source of pain for people who manage hardware infrastructure.”
Scientists Leonid Zotov, Christian Bizouard and Nikolay Sidorenkov claimed that irregular rotation was the result of something called Chandler Wobble, an irregular movement of the geographical polar of the earth throughout the world surface.
“The normal amplitude of Chandler’s shake is around 3M to 4M on the surface of the earth,” Zotov told Timeanddate, “but from 2017 to 2020 disappeared”.
Some experts believe that melting and justifying ice hats in the highest mountains in the world can contribute to irregular speeds.
“The earth has recorded its shortest day since scientists began to use atomic clocks to measure the speed of rotation,” Timeanddate reported.
Some experts believe that melting and justifying ice hats in the highest mountains in the world can contribute to irregular speeds. Photo / 123RF
“On June 29, 2022, the earth completed one round in 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours. This is the newest of a series of speed records for the earth since 2020. “
Zotov told Timeanddate that there was a “70 percent opportunity” of this planet had reached a minimum length of a day, which means we might never have to use a second negative leap.
However, Zoltov admitted there was no way to know for certain with the current technology.
The second negative effect and potential consequences echoed back to the Y2K theory, where many people believe that computers will not be able to handle beating hours to new millenniums.
Although Y2K finally proved nothing more than the hiccups in our civilization which was very computerized, other programming limits were detected in 2014.
Most computer servers use the same system that stores the date and time in a 32-bit integer that counts the number of seconds since January 1, 1970-often is called the time of time.
On March 19, 2038, precisely 03:14:07 (universal time coordinated) the clock will reach the largest number represented by 32 -bit integers.
As is the case, most likely many computers will not be able to distinguish between 2038 and 1970.
However, in 2038, many 32-bit systems are likely to wear out or be replaced.
Infrastructure tends to be the biggest headache to improve, but planning a considerable change in advance must eliminate most of the big problems related to the problem of time and date with a computer.