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Something Inside the Earth is "Stretching" the Length of a Day
The length of a day on Earth is not constant. Hidden "forces" within the planet are subtly stretching or shortening the duration of a day in various cycles, revealing unresolved mysteries about Earth's internal geodynamics.A new study from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) has uncovered a mysterious cycle affecting the length of a day. According to Science Alert, scientists have long known that a day is not precisely 24 hours. Instead, it fluctuates due to three primary factors.First, on a century scale, the duration of a day changes by approximately 1.72 milliseconds per 100 years. This is c...






