A faster spinning Earth may cause timekeepers to subtract a second from clocks
The slowing is mostly caused by the effect of tides, which are caused by the pull of the moon, McCarthy said.
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The slowing is mostly caused by the effect of tides, which are caused by the pull of the moon, McCarthy said.
Professor Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at UC San Diego, says one second should be removed from the year in 2029.
For the first time in history, world timekeepers may subtract a second from clocks because the planet is rotating faster than it used to.
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Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second.