Scientist want to change time!! 59 seconds in one minute, in 2023

1 minute = 59 seconds till 2023 

There are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute. But what if it were to change?

The way we perceive time is based on Earth’s rotation. The planet completes one full rotation in 24 hours, hence, we get our data and time systems. However, if the latest data is to be believed, this system is about to change. The Earth is now spinning just a bit faster than it has for millennia and the full rotation is slightly less than 24 hours now. So rather than 24 hours, our days may only be a little more than 18.5 hours long.

Don’t panic…yet. At least not yet. It is more likely that the actual adjustment will be so subtle that no one will notice it. But even so, many time-keeping devices on Earth (like our smartphones, clocks, watches, and digital watches) are already adjusting their calculations and so the change is being felt.

The change is due to a phenomenon called precession. The Earth’s axis (the very thin curved bit at the top of the planet) is slowly but steadily wobbling, similar to the top of a spinning top.

In simple terms, our concept of time is nothing more than the earth’s rotation around the sun.

Scientists are now learning that time itself is changing due to the movement of an object through space. In fact, some say it’s non-existent. They claim that time isn’t an observable thing that occurs on Earth.

In a recent article for the Huffington Post, a scientist by the name of Dr. Robert Gendler revealed the findings of a study he conducted with the title “We Do Not Exist: An Atheist Update”.

Using a series of equations and then observing the orbits of the planets, Dr. Gendler states:

“… it is likely that neither the earth nor any other known astronomical object is affected in any way by the gravitational forces of other celestial bodies. According to Dr. Gendler, a few years ago astronomers found that the orbits of objects passing in front of a star were affected by the influence of distant objects. However, they soon realized that the rate of changes was too high to be explained by the gravitational pull of other celestial bodies. The cause of this phenomenon has long been a source of philosophical and scientific debate, with some experts claiming it to be a sign of creation, and others saying it points to the existence of an unknown form of energy that permeates the universe. According to Dr. Gendler, the scientific community does not have enough evidence to choose one solution over the other.”

Another scientist by the name of Kevin Fong also did some research in which he discovered the same thing.

He says in his article for the HuffPost:

“Based on the passage of time, time travel does not exist because if you can go back in time, that would mean that at one point, you will be in the present, and at one point, you will be in the past. An object cannot do that, therefore time travel does not exist.”

However, a report by the Telegraph reveals that the scientists are asking for reducing the minute by one second, making it last only 59 seconds. This is because the data has revealed that the 24-hour daily rotation is decreasing considerably, and reducing the time in our day.

The report added that over the last century, it has been found that the planet's day is getting shorter. Also, the scientists from NASA and research institutes across the world are concerned about the loss of daily rotation speed, which could change our lives by influencing the earth's climate.

To slow down the earth's rotation, scientists will start implementing the additional measure to the current ways of conducting the tests, including the use of spinning wheels to measure the speed of the rotation.

Experts suggest that if the tiny amount of difference in rotation speed remains in the atmosphere for more than four hours, it might lead to drastic changes in the environment. The report stated that the current temperatures might rise or fall by a degree Celsius or more, and there might be some earth-shattering changes in the lives of humans as well.

Tinkering with the world clock isn’t an unusual phenomenon. In fact, researchers have added ‘leap seconds’ 27 times in the past to compensate for the slowing rotation of Earth, with the last adjustment made in 2016. But now, the planet is rotating faster than usual which is why scientists are urging for the inclusion of a ‘negative leap second’ to bring a balance to time.

As per the reports of Quartz, the good news is that the South Pacific country of Papua New Guinea has proposed a radical proposal to take care of this global time discrepancy.

The country has proposed a leap day in February every four years, according to its calendar. In order to implement the proposal, several preparations are required and some legal and political will must be created among the nations.

This means governments need to pass a law changing the day of the week on which the leap day falls. And then, they have to make sure that they switch the leap second from January to February.

For instance, in 2012, when they added a leap second, it caused numerous sites on the web to crash, including Reddit, Yelp, LinkedIn while causing disruption in Linux OS and software running on Javascript.

To avoid such a conundrum, several national leaders have decided to ignore the leap second corrections and rely on using the trusty atomic clock. The ultimate decision on this will be left to the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2023. Until then, all we can do is keep tabs on the Doomsday Clock, and await the 2017 minute when it might strike midnight.

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