Monday, December 27, 2004

Did you notice yesterday was a little short?

Scientists (or at least one scientist) are speculating that the huge quake yesterday could have altered the earth's rotation...shortening the day by perhaps as much as three micro seconds (a micro second is one millionth of a second.) My engineer husband tells me that is significant. What does that do to all the cool atomic clocks they were selling at Costo this holiday season?

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---Katie

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