The change, driven by the moon’s gravitational pull, will cause the planet to spin slightly faster at its poles, shaving 1.25 milliseconds off the usual 24-hour day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While the shift is too small for humans to notice<\/a>, experts said the long-term implications could be catastrophic.\u00a0<\/p>\n However, scientists said that unchecked acceleration would eventually lead to disastrous consequences.<\/p>\n If Earth’s rotation continues to accelerate unchecked<\/a>, scientists warn it could trigger disastrous consequences across the globe.<\/p>\n As the planet spins faster, centrifugal force would begin pushing ocean water away from the poles and toward the equator.<\/p>\n Even a modest increase of just one mile per hour could raise sea levels by several inches in equatorial regions, enough to swamp low-lying coastal cities already on the brink.<\/p>\n In more extreme scenarios, where Earth spins 100 miles per hour faster, vast areas around the equator could disappear under rising water as polar seas surge southward.<\/p>\n For those who survive the flooding, scientists warn that daily life would grow increasingly hostile as the planet’s balance shifts, making this seemingly minor change far more ominous than it appears.<\/p>\n Earth normally takes 24 hours, or exactly 86,400 seconds, to complete one full rotation, which is called a solar day\u00a0<\/p>\n A faster spin would not just shorten the day, it could throw human biology into chaos.\u00a0<\/p>\n If Earth’s rotation continues to accelerate, the solar day could shrink to just 22 hours, disrupting circadian rhythms and effectively shifting everyone’s internal clock two hours earlier each day without time to adjust.<\/p>\n Such disruption wouldn’t be minor. Studies have shown that even small changes, like daylight saving time, are linked to spikes in heart attacks, strokes, and traffic accidents. A permanent shift would be even more dangerous.<\/p>\n NASA astronomer Dr\u00a0 Sten Odenwald also warned that weather patterns would become more extreme. As the planet spins faster, the Coriolis effect, which causes storms to rotate, intensifies.<\/p>\n ‘Hurricanes will spin faster and carry more energy,’ Dr Odenwald explained.<\/p>\n These minute deviations in Earth’s rotation are tracked using atomic clocks, which measure time by counting the oscillations of atoms in a vacuum chamber.\u00a0<\/p>\n This forms the basis of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the global timekeeping standard.<\/p>\n In recent years, Earth has seen a growing number of ‘short days.’<\/a> On July 19, 2020, the day was 1.47 milliseconds shorter than average. June 30, 2022, came in 1.59 milliseconds short.<\/p>\n![\"Earth](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/100112035-14970153-Professor_David_Jewitt_has_said_that_the_change_in_the_speed_of_-a-38_17543390128.jpeg\")
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