{"id":972,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/earth-days-could-last-for-25-hours\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","slug":"earth-days-could-last-for-25-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/earth-days-could-last-for-25-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth days could last for 25 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-08-20 14:01:34<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Days on Earth could be extended to 25 hours.<BR><br \/>\nAn additional hour may be added to the day as the Moon gradually drifts away from Earth &#8211; slowing the planet&#8217;s rotation and subsequently making days longer.<BR><br \/>\nExperts have come up with a statistical method combining astronomical theory with geological observation and calculated that a day lasted just 18 hours 1.4 billion years ago.<BR><br \/>\nThey do expect days to reach 25 hours at some point but explained that it will take around 200 million years for the extension to happen.<BR><br \/>\nThis is because the Moon moves 1.5 inches further away from Earth each year in a process that is known as lunar recession.<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Stephen Meyers, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, said: &#8220;As the Moon moves away, the Earth is like a spinning figure skater who slows down as they stretch their arms out.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (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>2024-08-20 14:01:34 Days on Earth could be extended to 25 hours. An additional hour may be added to the day as the Moon gradually drifts away from Earth &#8211; slowing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","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\/972","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=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}