Earth’s rotation is no longer matching the tidy 24-hour day that our technology assumes. Since 2020, each day has been shorter by roughly 1.5 milliseconds, a tiny sliver of time that is now large ...
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Dinosaurs didn’t have 24-hour days… Earth was spinning fast enough to make them about 22 hours long
It is easy to assume that one Earth day has always lasted 24 hours, but the planet’s rotation has gradually slowed throughout its history. The Moon’s gravity creates tides that exert torque on Earth, ...
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