{"id":11376,"date":"2021-04-18T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11376"},"modified":"2021-05-07T20:02:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T03:02:34","slug":"they-did-it-in-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/18\/they-did-it-in-a-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"They Did It In A Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a35165130\/leap-second-shorten-minute-earth-rotation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Popular Mechanics<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Scientists Want to Shorten the Minute to 59 Seconds<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Time might be running out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BY\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/author\/224127\/caroline-delbert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CAROLINE DELBERT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/midnight-royalty-free-image-1610374623.?crop=1.00xw:1.00xh;0,0&amp;resize=640:*\" alt=\"midnight\" title=\"Midnight\"\/><figcaption><em>ISTEO \/ Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We like to say nothing is certain in life but death and taxes, but the truth is even our planet and the universe are constantly imposing changes on us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That includes this new suggestion from scientists: We should consider&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/05\/atomic-clock-scientists-suggest-subtracting-a-second-from-minute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>shortening the minute<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;to just 59 seconds, at least for one \u201cnegative leap second\u201d that will better line us up with Earth\u2019s real rotation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is on the heels of a year marked by many shorter-than-average days, following several years in which Earth has rotated faster than maybe ever before. What\u2019s going on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, you might wonder why tiny portions of individual seconds make any real difference. The truth is they don\u2019t for most people, or even most applications. But for some, like scientists and specially tuned scientific instruments, the differences must be accounted for. Something simple like a clock that just sets itself and \u201csheds\u201d the extra or missing partial second each midnight could detract from research or regulation of important functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a35165130\/leap-second-shorten-minute-earth-rotation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Popular Mechanics<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Popular Mechanics Why Scientists Want to Shorten the Minute to 59 Seconds Time might be running out. BY\u00a0CAROLINE DELBERT We like to say nothing is certain in life but death and taxes, but the truth is even our planet and the universe are constantly imposing changes on us. That includes this new suggestion from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}