{"id":1642,"date":"2025-07-09T20:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2025-07-09T20:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T20:17:28","slug":"earth-spins-faster-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=1642","title":{"rendered":"Earth Spins Faster Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Earth Is Spinning Faster, Scientists Say<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists say Earth is spinning faster, making some days slightly shorter than 24 hours. \u201cWednesday might be the shortest day of your life,\u201d researchers noted, with July 9, 22, and August 5 expected to be up to 1.51 milliseconds shorter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Atomic clocks, which measure exact vibrations of atoms, revealed this change. Causes may include glacier melt, core motion, weather patterns like El Ni\u00f1o, and a weakening magnetic field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cThere is more land in the northern hemisphere&#8230; this means that mass is moved&#8230; further away from the Earth\u2019s spin axis,\u201d explained geophysicist Richard Holme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fastest day ever was July 5, 2024\u20141.66 milliseconds short. Even tiny changes impact satellites, GPS, and financial systems. \u201cTechnical issues can arise from a shift of only a few milliseconds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the trend continues, scientists may need to remove a second\u2014called a \u201cnegative leap second\u201d\u2014from global clocks for the first time ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypositiveinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-161-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41466\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Is Spinning Faster, Scientists Say Scientists say Earth is spinning faster, making some days slightly shorter than 24 hours. \u201cWednesday might be the shortest day of your life,\u201d researchers noted, with July 9, 22, and August 5 expected to be up to 1.51 milliseconds shorter. Atomic clocks, which measure exact vibrations of atoms, revealed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}