Earth orbit slows no more, baffling scientists

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Earth orbit slows no more, baffling scientists
Friday, January 2, 2004 Posted: 3:02 PM EST (2002 GMT)

BOULDER, Colorado (AP) -- In a phenomenon that has scientists puzzled, the Earth is right on schedule for a fifth straight year.

Experts agree that the rate at which the Earth travels through space has slowed ever so slightly for millennia. To make the world's official time agree with where the Earth actually is in space, scientists in 1972 started adding an extra "leap second" on the last day of the year.

For 28 years, scientists repeated the procedure. But in 1999, they discovered the Earth was no longer lagging behind.

At the National Institute for Science and Technology in Boulder, spokesman Fred McGehan said most scientists agree the Earth's orbit around the sun has been gradually slowing for millennia. But he said they don't have a good explanation for why it's suddenly on schedule.

Possible explanations include the tides, weather and changes in the Earth's core, he said.

The leap second was an unexpected consequence of the 1955 invention of the atomic clock, which use the electromagnetic radiation emanated by Cesium atoms to measure time. It is extremely reliable.

Atomic-based Coordinated Universal Time was implemented in 1972, superseding the astronomically determined Greenwich Mean Time.

Leap seconds can be a big deal, affecting everything from communication, navigation and air traffic control systems to the computers that link global financial markets.

www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/01/01/leap.second.ap/index.html

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A Few Paragraphs From:
“On the Road to 2012”
www.foundationforthelawoftime.org/2012/meditations/7.21_4-Wind/page1.html

Why did it happen that our population exploded from half a billion people 250 years ago to 12 fold at more than 6 billion today? A calendar is a programming device and so is the clock. The clock is the microprogramming device and the calendar is the macro programming device. The macro schedules you out for a year. What is a year? People think of a year as when you take down one calendar and put up the next years calendar. The only reason you need a next year’s calendar is because the calendar is screwy and January 1 might have been a Saturday last year but you are not sure what day it’s going to be next year—so it keeps Hallmark industry in business.

A year is the time it takes the Earth to go around the sun once. A year is an orbital measure. If you want a standard of measure, you want even units of measure and you want the units to correspond: 30, 31, 30, etc., is not even units of measure. And the micro units in that, the seven weeks, they don’t measure up with the macro units—the months. Today is Friday, January 30th, of course there won’t be a Feb. 30th, but what day of the week will March 30th be? Right now most people don’t have a clue. So nothing measures up and you can’t do calculations very quickly on it, that’s why you have to take out your day timer and look it up. You can see how this programs us for a certain amount of confusion. It is at a very subtle unconscious level but it is pervasive. Then the clock is the microprogramming device. Like, “I’ve got ten minutes to go,” or “I’ll meet you at a quarter to two,” or “Your hour is up you owe me 4 hundred dollars.”

This brings us to the philosophy of “Time is Money,” absolutely everything in this society is prorated according to the clock. Everything is prorated as money according to the clock. The clock came to perfection in the early 17th century, not too long after that the first stock markets and banks were created. With the combination of an irregular and irrational calendar--we are programmed for irrationality: irrational laws, irrational customs. The combination of an irregular, irrational standard of measure which is not really a standard measure with an artificial mechanistic clock creates an unconscious timing frequency which governs the pace of the society. This is why we are accelerating.