by The earth has been revolving at its fastest speed since the beginning of the records, and the astronomers predict that August 5 will be one of the shortest days that have ever been measured.
New estimates published this month indicate that the first Tuesday in August will be around 1.25 milliseconds shorter than it should be.
The average rotation of our planet is 24 hours or 86,400 seconds. However, there are several variables that cause the earth to turn faster or slower.
The gravitational influence of the moon on earth means that it slows down the time over time and for days.
There is no conclusive reason why the rotation of the earth accelerates, although a study of 2024 indicates that melting polar ice caps and increasing sea level could influence it.
The shortest day ever recorded was on July 5, 2024 and measures 1.66 milliseconds shorter because the rotation accelerated the rotation.
Scientists have proposed a negative leap to compensate for the lost time, which means that all watches in the world have to be adapted.
“This is an unprecedented situation and a big deal” Nature last year.
“It is not a big change in the rotation of the earth that will lead to a disaster or anything, but it is something remarkable. It is another indication that we are in a very unusual time.”
Since 1972, 27 LEAP seconds have been added to a coordinated Universal Time (UTC) since 1972 when the present form of the timeline was adopted in order to correspond to the nuclear period up to the astronomical period.
This would be the first time that one second was pulled off, and it is not clear how the current computer infrastructure would deal with the shift.
Patrizia Tavella from the time department of the international office for weights and measures wrote in an accompanying article in the natural paper that potential risks should be evaluated before a negative jump is used.
“A negative jump has never been added or tested,” she said, “so the problems they could cause are without precedent.”
