Realistically, 23 seconds in 33 years sounds to me
like our clocks are just now becoming accurate enough
to tell us that our calender year is a couple seconds
short.
Friction from tidal crust distortion would create
heat. Been doing it for years.
Don't forget to account for the addition of mass to
the system by way of "space dust", I remember reading
somewhere that the Earth's diameter increases by a
couple of millimeters annually due to addition of
material from space (meteors, solar wind, etc.)
Perhaps this additional mass is responsible for
keeping the ever accelerating moon from flying off
into space, and it's orbital radius is not much
different from what it was when the system formed.
--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Vortexians- The evening news on ABC ststed that the
> clock watchers
> are going to add a leap second to the
> last second of
> Dec.31,2005 to correct the clocks to
> the earths rotation.
> It seems that they have had to add 23
> seconds since
> 1972 to correct clocks. The Earth has
> been slowing down
> its rotation speed.
> The slowing of the earth should
> increase its
> temperature I would think (Im possibly
> wrong.)
> It does seem to coinside with the years
> of biggest
> increase of temperature. Or as many
> suspect just a normal
> cycle.
> A cycle we are not aware of.
> _ges-
>
>
>
>
Merlyn
Magickal Engineer and Technical Metaphysicist
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