{"id":13373,"date":"2024-07-08T12:31:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T19:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13373"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:33:24","slug":"our-slowing-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/08\/our-slowing-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Slowing Core"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earth\u2019s core has slowed so much it\u2019s moving backward, scientists confirm. Here\u2019s what it could mean<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New research confirms the rotation of Earth’s inner core has been slowing down as part of a decades-long pattern. How this slowdown might affect our planet remains an open question.\u00a0 Edward Sotelo\/Courtesy USC<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our spinning planet, like a top whirling around inside a bigger top, shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This inner core has intrigued researchers since its discovery by Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann in 1936, and how it moves \u2014 its rotation speed and direction \u2014 has been at the center of a decades-long debate. A growing body of evidence suggests the core\u2019s spin has changed dramatically in recent years, but scientists have remained divided over what exactly is happening \u2014 and what it means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the trouble is that Earth\u2019s deep interior is impossible to observe or sample directly. Seismologists have gleaned information about the inner core\u2019s motion by examining how waves from large earthquakes that ping this area behave. Variations between waves of similar strengths that passed through the core at different times enabled scientists to measure changes in the inner core\u2019s position and calculate its spin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from CNN Earth\u2019s core has slowed so much it\u2019s moving backward, scientists confirm. Here\u2019s what it could mean By Mindy Weisberger, CNN Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our spinning planet, like a top whirling around inside a bigger top, shrouded in mystery. This inner core has intrigued researchers since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13373","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}