{"id":2948,"date":"2025-07-03T10:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/03\/shortest-day-in-history-predicted-to-take-place-this-summer\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:24:19","slug":"shortest-day-in-history-predicted-to-take-place-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/03\/shortest-day-in-history-predicted-to-take-place-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortest day in history predicted to take place this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-03 10:24:16<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The shortest day in history is coming this summer.<BR><br \/>\nAstrophysicist Graham Jones, of the University of London, says that the planet&#8217;s rotation will speed up significantly on either July 9, July 22 or August 5.<BR><br \/>\nTime is predicted to drop on these days by 1.30, 1.38 or 1.51 milliseconds, respectively.<BR><br \/>\nEven though these changes are tiny, they will affect everything from satellite systems and GPS accuracy to how time is measured itself.<BR><br \/>\nScientists have been left baffled by the planet&#8217;s acceleration.<BR><br \/>\nLeonid Zotov, a scientist at Moscow State University, said: &#8220;Nobody expected this, the cause of this acceleration is not explained.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nBoffins have noticed that Earth has been spinning slightly faster than usual since 2020 but the cause is still a mystery.<BR><br \/>\nOur planet normally takes 24 hours &#8211; or exactly 86,400 seconds &#8211; to complete a full rotation but this isn&#8217;t always perfect.<BR><br \/>\nThe rotation tends to shift by a few milliseconds over time as Earth&#8217;s spin is influenced by natural forces such as earthquakes and ocean currents.<BR><br \/>\nThe fastest recorded day in history so far was July 5, 2024, when Earth spun 1.66 milliseconds faster than the standard 24 hours.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-03 10:24:16 The shortest day in history is coming this summer. Astrophysicist Graham Jones, of the University of London, says that the planet&#8217;s rotation will speed up significantly on either&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2949,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/2949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}