The Moon Is Drifting Away From Earth And It’s Having A Major Impact On Time.

[ShahdagMountains]

A group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been collecting data and have established that over the course of millions of years, the Moon is drifting away from Earth and it is having a major impact on time.

What does that mean for us? Well turns out it could have a huge impact on how we perceive the time of day.

Speaking about the findings, Professor Stephen Meyers of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is the co-author of the study, said: “As the Moon moves away, the Earth is like a spinning figure skater who slows down as they stretch their arms out.”

To study this process and come up with this conclusion, the researchers involved have been using a method called astrochronology – which links astronomical theory to geological observation.

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[Vrenn]

A group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been collecting data and have established that over the course of millions of years, the Moon is drifting away from Earth and it is having a major impact on time.

What does that mean for us? Well turns out it could have a huge impact on how we perceive the time of day.

Speaking about the findings, Professor Stephen Meyers of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is the co-author of the study, said: “As the Moon moves away, the Earth is like a spinning figure skater who slows down as they stretch their arms out.”

To study this process and come up with this conclusion, the researchers involved have been using a method called astrochronology – which links astronomical theory to geological observation.

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This is news? The Moon has always been moving away scant cms every year. And it always will until it finds the neutral point when it stops. If it never reaches that point then it will, someday, be taken over by a larger mass like the Sun, Jupiter or Saturn.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

This is news? The Moon has always been moving away scant cms every year. And it always will until it finds the neutral point when it stops. If it never reaches that point then it will, someday, be taken over by a larger mass like the Sun, Jupiter or Saturn.

It’s not meant to be news. Just something to discuss; the different methods scientists will use to determine this process.

I always thought the moon was getting closer. I forget where l got that from.

 

[1srelluc]

Come back Moon, we've been good to you!

Just look at all the songs written in your honor.

 

[tyroneweaver]

A group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been collecting data and have established that over the course of millions of years, the Moon is drifting away from Earth and it is having a major impact on time.

What does that mean for us? Well turns out it could have a huge impact on how we perceive the time of day.

Speaking about the findings, Professor Stephen Meyers of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is the co-author of the study, said: “As the Moon moves away, the Earth is like a spinning figure skater who slows down as they stretch their arms out.”

To study this process and come up with this conclusion, the researchers involved have been using a method called astrochronology – which links astronomical theory to geological observation.

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that's ok we're actually drifting closer to the Andromeda Galaxy

Cant wait to see that event

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Cant wait to see that event

If you live that long.

2.5 million light-years from Earth.

 

[1srelluc]

The Moon looked at Earth and went....

 

[1srelluc]

Speaking of the Moon did anyone see it this morning at about 0600, you could read a newspaper by it. It was almost too bright/big to look at very long.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Speaking of the Moon did anyone see it this morning at about 0600, you could read a newspaper by it. It was almost too bright/big to look at very long.

Yeah, it 's been bright the last few nights and was nice and full last night. And not a cloud in the sky. I took the dog up to the woods. He sounded like a horse tromping through there, though, so didn't wander around much.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Anyway. As to the topic, be here now is my philosophy.

What is time anyway, really? It's not like there's a big clock out there in the cosmos.

Time is just a concept to keep everybody's day in order. Basically...

Tea and toast at 6...cheese and crackers at noon...burgers and fries at 7...sleep at 11...get up at 4...

Do you kow what I mean?

 

[Vrenn]

It’s not meant to be news. Just something to discuss; the different methods scientists will use to determine this process.

I always thought the moon was getting closer. I forget where l got that from.

I go back up to the Mountain tops and can easily say that the moon appears to be smaller. Up there, the air is thin and there is Zero smog so what you see is what you got. Of course I have over 70s or comparison.

 

[Foxfyre]

I am a natural disaster aficionado and collect good (and some really awful) DVD and Blu-ray movies about tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and incoming objects from space.

One titled "Impact", originally a 2009 TV series, features Earth people trying to solve a problem of a fragment of a brown dwarf embedding itself in the moon and pulling the moon and Earth ever closer together with an eventual inevitable collision. It created all sorts of terrible phenomenon on Earth and of course the collision itself would end all life on Earth.

I think I prefer the moon pulling away from Earth that 3.8 centimeters every year though I don't begin to know how they actually calculate that.

Time is funny stuff and calculated rather arbitrarily by humankind over the millenia. Even now China has a different New Year than the United States. A day is fixed via the Earth's rotation but there are enough variables to require adjustment of the atomic clock now and then. (I read recently that the world's time keepers may just give up on those tiny adjustments as not worth the effort.)

But then you get into concepts of wormholes/time warps in space and Einstein's theory of time travel. There is so much more that we don't know than what we do know. Fascinating to think about and imagine though.

 

[shockedcanadian]

A group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been collecting data and have established that over the course of millions of years, the Moon is drifting away from Earth and it is having a major impact on time.

What does that mean for us? Well turns out it could have a huge impact on how we perceive the time of day.

Speaking about the findings, Professor Stephen Meyers of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is the co-author of the study, said: “As the Moon moves away, the Earth is like a spinning figure skater who slows down as they stretch their arms out.”

To study this process and come up with this conclusion, the researchers involved have been using a method called astrochronology – which links astronomical theory to geological observation.

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Even the moon understands how unappealing those who populate our planet have become.

 

[Vrenn]

I am a natural disaster aficionado and collect good (and some really awful) DVD and Blu-ray movies about tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and incoming objects from space.

One titled "Impact", originally a 2009 TV series, features Earth people trying to solve a problem of a fragment of a brown dwarf embedding itself in the moon and pulling the moon and Earth ever closer together with an eventual inevitable collision. It created all sorts of terrible phenomenon on Earth and of course the collision itself would end all life on Earth.

I think I prefer the moon pulling away from Earth that 3.8 centimeters every year.

In the last million or so years, the Earth has been kept stable because of the moon. The problem is, the Earth is out of balance and needs the Moon to counteract the wobble affect. Without the moon, there would be zero life on earth as well.

 

[Foxfyre]

In the last million or so years, the Earth has been kept stable because of the moon. The problem is, the Earth is out of balance and needs the Moon to counteract the wobble affect. Without the moon, there would be zero life on earth as well.

It's true that the moon is very important. The moon stabilizes the Earth's axis, controls the tides and affects a lot of biological processes--circadian rhythms if I remember correctly from science class.

Not to mention the romantic aspects of it though I don't think those are as strong since humankind managed to go there.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

If the moon is an average of 238,855 miles away from the earth, how can we see it with the naked eye?

I can just about make out the coastline of France which is about 20 miles from Dover, if l stand on the white cliffs.

By that logic, should l be able to see the coast of Canada from the coast of Ireland?

 

[cnm]

It’s not meant to be news. Just something to discuss; the different methods scientists will use to determine this process.

Which scientific method do you think most relevant?

 

[cnm]

If the moon is an average of 238,855 miles away from the earth, how can we see it with the naked eye?

I can just about make out the coastline of France which is about 20 miles from Dover, if l stand on the white cliffs.

By that logic, should l be able to see the coast of Canada from the coast of Ireland?

JFC

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Which scientific method do you think most relevant?

What is it that you want this time?

 

[MarathonMike]

If the moon is an average of 238,855 miles away from the earth, how can we see it with the naked eye?

I can just about make out the coastline of France which is about 20 miles from Dover, if l stand on the white cliffs.

By that logic, should l be able to see the coast of Canada from the coast of Ireland?

The moon's diameter is roughly 100 times smaller than it's distance to Earth. We have no problem seeing satellites that are 100 miles away from the Earth and they are much smaller than 1 mile in diameter.