This is really going to throw off the accuracy of my atomic watch. Can I get a refund?
“This is really going to throw off the accuracy of my atomic watch”
Interesting point. I guess they can account for it over time as a reduction in the periodic leap second.
But if it had been several seconds, all current timepieces would have become deprecated.
What I don’t understand though is how a shift in axis of roatation equals a change in speed of rotation. We still have the same mass, so by conservation of momentum, the only way we can go faster is to reduce our diameter.