The Rotation Of The Earth’s Core Slowed Down
The rotation of Earth’s inner core has indeed slowed down, a new study has confirmed, opening questions about what’s happening at the planet’s center and how it might affect us.
Day and night can change duration by 1/1000 of a second. This will not be felt on the scale of human civilization. Unless you have to take into account changes in subtle physical experiments, when they can affect the result, for example, at the quantum level. Such conclusions were made by scientists from the University of Southern California (USC), whose article was recently published in the journal Nature.
“When I first saw the seismograms that hinted at this change, I was puzzled,” said scientist John E. Vidale of USC. “But when we discovered two dozen more observations indicating the same pattern, the result was inevitable. The inner core slowed down for the first time in decades. Other scientists have recently argued for similar and different models, but our latest study provides the most compelling evidence yet.”
The research adds to our understanding of the mysteries of the geological depths – and the rotation of the Earth’s inner core is something that scientists plan to continue to monitor very closely.
