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Physical & Life Sciences
Creation & Evolution
The Abiogenesis/Atheism Fallacy
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<blockquote data-quote="Nostromo" data-source="post: 57137388" data-attributes="member: 253266"><p>I don't understand why that's even an issue. You've read the Wikipedia page on the Leap Second, and everything you need to understand why that happened is in there.</p><p></p><p>Between 1972 and 1979 they had to account for the differences between the time standards that had accumulated since 1958, and in 1999 the rotation rate of the Earth increased, so fewer leap seconds have been needed recently.</p><p></p><p>When people say it will change by X amount over Y period of time, that's an average. The Earth's rotation is not uniform, over short periods there will be irregularities that will take it away from the average.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nostromo, post: 57137388, member: 253266"] I don't understand why that's even an issue. You've read the Wikipedia page on the Leap Second, and everything you need to understand why that happened is in there. Between 1972 and 1979 they had to account for the differences between the time standards that had accumulated since 1958, and in 1999 the rotation rate of the Earth increased, so fewer leap seconds have been needed recently. When people say it will change by X amount over Y period of time, that's an average. The Earth's rotation is not uniform, over short periods there will be irregularities that will take it away from the average. [/QUOTE]
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