Why the Shortest Day of Your Life Could Happen This Summer

The Earth may be about to come out its fastest day ever. And no one knows the reason.

On 9, July 22 or 5 August, our planet may complete the fastest rotation on its axis of ever, which destroyed last year’s record, according to Graham Jones, an astronomical physicist of Timeanddate.com – a site dedicated to tracking time and time.

According to the website, Earth rotates faster when the moon or south takes a large south for the equator (among other factors). The difference in speed is countless. Scientists use very accurate atomic watches to measure the length of the day (LOD) in millimeters longer or shorter than 24 hours – or 86400 seconds.

Since 2020, it has been produced every year the shorter Lod registered. In 2020 it was 1.05 millimeters less than 86400 seconds, or -1.05. Last year, July 5 came in -1.66 mm, and he is the current record holder. This year, researchers expect the shortest day of the year to be made either on 9, 22 July or 5 August, given that the moon will be close to the farthest point of the equator in those dates. It remains to see whether the shortest Lod for 2025 will break the record again.

“No one expects this,” said Leonid Zotov, an expert on the ground from the Moscow Institute for Electronics and Mathematics. “The reason for this acceleration is not explained,” he added. “Most scientists believe it is something inside the earth. The peripheral models and the atmosphere do not explain this huge acceleration.”

In terms of long -term changes, the moon was actually slowing the speed of the Earth for billions of years. About 4.5 billion years ago, one day was on the ground somewhere between three and six hours. The tidal forces caused by the moon are one of the factors that play their role, which makes the oceans swell in some points and lose the ground momentum.

In short, the moon constantly absorbs some rotational energy of the Earth, which in turn expands and accelerates its own orbit around our planet. For this reason, the moon moves about 1.49 inches (3.78 cm) away from us every year.

Currently, the moon takes about 27 days for the Earth. One day, the speed of the tropical period of the moon and the rotation of the Earth will be synchronized, which means that the moon will only be visible from half of our planet at all times (that is, the Earth will be closed in a dominant way). But you do not only worry. According to Astronomy Magazine, researchers expect this to happen about 50 billion years from now.

This means that it is likely that this does not happen at all, because the Earth may become uninterrupted for a long time – and given the way things are going these days, we may wipe ourselves a long time ago Which – which Until it becomes a problem.