[satchmodog9]

Makes sense. If it slows down will it be because Bush didn't sign Kyoto?

[mtbopfuyn]

Stop, stop the world I said
stop, stop, stop the world
because I want to get off
want to get off
want to get off
it's making me earthsick

[AFreeBird]

This sounds like a perpetual motion machine. The patent office won't issue a patent for it.

What does God need with a patent anyway.

[carlr]

The solid 1,500-mile-wide inner core, which is surrounded by fluid, rotates about one-quarter to one-half degree more than the rest of the world every year,

Not that unusual.I presume the Earths rotation begins at its core and since that is surrounded by fluid there is bound to be a loss of efficiency as it transmits the rotation up to the solid mantel.
The torque converter in an automatic transmission has the same thing happening as does any fluid coupling.The energy that is not transfered directly to what it is driving is lost in the form of heat.

[SunkenCiv]

A science topic ping for FairO', with a couple of related topics for Coleus.

Scientific maverick's theory on Earth's core up for a test
SF Chronicle | Monday, November 29, 2004 | Keay Davidson
Posted on 12/05/2004 11:17:28 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1294934/posts

New evidence for the Moon's soft middle
New Scientist | 14 February 2002 | Will Knight
Posted on 12/27/2004 2:29:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1309193/posts

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[Artemis Webb]

The center is outspinning the surface?

That is exactly how I feel after I eat at Taco Bell.

[Dustbunny]

Interesting 'theory' but still just a theory.

[SunkenCiv]

"A bit lumpy... oh, no wonder, I was sittin' on the cat."

[SunkenCiv]

an older topic:

[mad_as_he$$]

Duh.

[Cementjungle]

I thought we knew that already... I remember being told that in school.