Earth is spinning fast: You have been reading since childhood that the earth completes one revolution of 360° in exactly 24 hours. In total, there are 86 000 400 seconds in a day. Similar to how our clocks operate, 24 hours or 86 000 400 seconds constitute one day. In which a day is considered complete after the completion of 86 thousand 400 seconds. But have you ever wondered what would happen if the Earth made one revolution of 360° in less than 24 hours? Yes, it has happened, and it did it in a record-breaking way this time. On June 29, 2022, Earth completed a rotation of 360° in less than 24 hours, 1.59 milliseconds.
Gadgets will crash
That is, on June 29, the Earth completed one revolution of 360 ° in 86399.99841 seconds. Since 1973, when the Earth’s rotation time is being accurately calculated, it is the fastest 360° revolution completed by the Earth. With this fastest speed of the earth, both scientists and experts are speculating that this increased speed of the earth can crash all your electronic gadgets like computer, mobile, internet or even wifi. Let us explain how this can possibly have occurred.
Learn about leap seconds
Usually, the Earth completes one revolution of its 360° in 86,400.002 seconds, that is, it is common for the Earth to take a few milliseconds longer to make one revolution. And every day, this 0.002 second time taken by the Earth to rotate 360° per day becomes 2 milliseconds in 1 year and 1 second in 3 years, due to which the International Atomic Time (IAT) coordinate is disturbed and corrected. Is. It is sometimes added 1 second to the Universal Time Clock (UTC), which is added by the France-based International Earth Rotation System. And this added one second is also called a leap second.
Leap Seconds has been added 27 times so far
Since 1972, there have been 27 more leap seconds. The system of adding leap seconds is such that 23:59:59 is followed by 23:59:60 in Universal Time Clock (UTC) and then at 00:00:00. That is, after 11 o’clock 59 minutes 59 seconds, 11 o’clock 59 minutes 60 seconds comes, and then 12 o’clock. Whereas normally the clock strikes 12 after 1 second of 59 minutes 59 seconds. While adding leap second no rocket is launched and this leap second is added only on 30th June or 31st July that too by indicating 1 month in advance.
It is easy to add leap seconds because it usually takes longer for the Earth to rotate 360°, but after the year 2020, the Earth is making one revolution of 360° at a record speed. Where on June 29, the Earth had completed one revolution of 1.59 milliseconds earlier, which is a record so far, and similarly on July 26, Earth completed one revolution of its 360° 1.50 milliseconds earlier. That is, on July 26, our Earth completed a 360° revolution in 86399.9985 seconds. According to scientists, if this continues and it becomes fewer milliseconds, seconds, then they will be called reverse leap second and then will have to decrease one second from UTC. ie 23:59:58, after 00:00:00. After 11:59 minutes 58 seconds, it is 12 o’clock in the night.
From technology to communication systems will be affected
The reduction of this reverse leap second to UTC, in the opinion of experts, will have negative effects on technology and the communication system because today’s electronic devices operate according to time and this change in time can crash computer programs. and may corrupt the data. Because this data is saved with a time stamp. According to experts, when Leap Second was added to UTC in 2012, many internet websites including Mozilla, Linkedin, and Stumble crashed. And in today’s time when all the devices are connected to the internet, the chances of them crashing have also increased.
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Astronomers’ opinion
According to astronomers, the way there are frequent storms, floods, climate change, and glaciers are melting on Earth. This could be a major reason for the rapid rotation of the Earth. At the same time, scientists say that this may also be due to the Chandler wobble, which creates a small deviation in the axis of rotation of the Earth, due to which the speed becomes somewhat faster.
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