[Pessimist]

“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.

[Pessimist]

Ooops! shoulda RTFA.

As an interesting aside, I remember reading that when the Chinese complete and fill the 3 gorges dam, it was going to minutely slow the earth’s rotation, as it put more mass at a greater radius.

Maybe, this will cancel it out. :)

[vwbug]

Send Hillary to the other side of the planet to shake her booty. That will quake everything back into sync

[smokingfrog]

Redistribution of mass away from the center of axis.

Do volcano eruptions slow the rotation of the earth?

[Domangart]

Its one of the things you can never prove however I have this handy bottle of snake proof here. Every action has a reaction but it doesn't necessary mean this unless you are a true believer.