Photo: NASA

Time is a perception and, many times, we would like the days to be longer or shorter.

Less than 24 hours, that's how long it lasted on June 29, 2022, the shortest day on Earth since the 1960s, when we began to have records.

Living fast is a consequence of the current life model and it seems that 

 we have “infected” this

We can know how long it takes for the Earth to move thanks to atomic clocks, with which we also know that its rotation slows down with 27 leap seconds to keep atomic time since the 1970s.

Photo: Kyle Glenn, via Unsplash.

This was the case, for example, on New Year's Eve 2016, when all the clocks stopped for a second to compensate for the imbalance.

Now, after recording the shortest day in history, we may have to speed up global clocks and celebrate a leap second to keep order.

Last June 29 is the result of a fact that atomic clocks have been registering for decades: Earth's rotation speeds up little by little.

Paradoxically, in 2020, we had the shortest 28 days since 1960.

Whether they last more or less, the days and life itself must be taken advantage of, being aware that our time on Earth has an inescapable end.

Photo: The New York Public Library, via Unsplash.

(Taken from Restless Culture)