A Matter of Degrees, Pt. 2

[Bruce Appelbaum]

     The earth must be slowing down at an alarming rate, because every day 
     seems to last forever around here.


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Subject: Re: A Matter of Degrees, Pt. 2
Author:  lupine at ncia.net at Internet
Date:    9/26/1997 11:32 AM


229.30 `incomprehensibly and perversely, in willful denial of God's
       Disposition of Time and Space, preferring 365 and a Quarter' 
Well        why not?  (AD)
     
     
I seem to remember reading somewhere (in a book by Stephen Gould I 
think) that the earth's rotation is, and has been, slowing down.  A 
"day", now, is longer than in the distant past (therefore, fewer in a 
"year"), but shorter than in the future.  Does anyone know if there is 
any progressive change in the time that it takes the earth to orbit the 
sun (our "year")?
     
Sorry to muddy the waters.
     
Scott Badger