Quake in Japan has sped up time...

My son commented today that the sun went down more quickly today over the horizon. Weird.

I told him we had to leave the park when the sun hit the horizon. We started leaving and the next time we looked at the sunset, the sun was already gone.

Then he said that time was speeding up.

He is only 8 years old... could he be that perceptive?

Well, it's a matter of perspective...you have to think in terms of relativity...for example:

You guys were at the park having fun, so time flew by, but see how slow time goes when you make him eat brussels Sprouts or clean his room :)

OBVIOUSLY NOT THE SUN DOESNT MOVE.

You are right! For some reason it jumped a whole hour here!

Relative to us, standing on the Earth, it does...

Lest those days be shortened none shall survive. These are the signs.

See, I told ya! My atomic clock doesn't know it yet though :(

I hate setting all the damned clocks in the house...

"The Earth's rotation causes the sun to "set." The closer to the equator you are, the closer to perpendicular the sun travels relative to the horizon, and the faster the sun will set relative to the horizon. If you stand on the Arctic Circle on June 21 (or Antarctic Circle on Dec 21) you will see that the sun doesn't set, it will very slowly come down to the horizon, then pass parallel to the horizon, and then rise again over a period of several hours.

That is the reason that twilight is of a longer duration at northern regions than it is in equatorial regions."

Interesting, we are in Hawaii, so we are closer to the equator. Maybe the difference appears even faster here. We also do not observe daylight savings time so we don't change our clocks.

I have a weird question for the experts, because I don't know...

1. Isn't the Earth's magnetosphere the weakest it's ever been? (which is the reason why the solar events have been so damaging?)

2. When the Earth spins, doesn't that help to restore the magnetosphere? (I just watched the movie, the Core... so if it is silly, forgive me)

I'm no expert, but yes the magnetosphere is the weakest we've observed, due to, I believe, PX...which is also influencing the Sun among other things...

I don't think the spinning of the Earth does that, but rather the spinning of the core...

24 hr Sunlight would be awesome for my solar power...and garden!

I'm still running around setting clocks...Dammit...but I enjoy the extra sun in the evenings for the kid's baseball and stuff :)

thanks! I watched "The Core" the day before the quake blew and I didn't know if it would've had the same effect or not

[link to www.space.com]
"The 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile last year also sped up the planet's rotation and shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds. The 9.1 Sumatra earthquake in 2004 shortened the day by 6.8 microseconds."

so that's a total of 9.96 microseconds!

Right! If this keeps up we'll have to eat dinner for breakfast and I'll get nothing done...we could eventually go back in time if Einstein's theory is correct! Holy shit this is deep!!

Just got back from the movies and so far it seems time is stabilized...it started on time, but the 20 minutes of previews and commercials made us later than we wanted...will continue to watch for any time anomalies though...

Yeah... time sped up for me too.

I woke up this morning and my computer time was 1 hour ahead.

See if this happens all over it could cause worldwide time flux complications!!

The funny part is that all of the earthquakes sped up the rotation, none of them contributed to slow down the rotation.

Wow... here, too! Ya don't suppose it was a man-made event, do ya?

The only way that could happen is if mass would come toward the surface...perhaps by lava from volcanoes...

The only way that could happen is if mass would come toward the surface...perhaps by lava from volcanoes...

I noticed in the Indianapolis area the birds seem to be flying faster then normal kind of odd.

Like breaking the sound barrier and shit?

finally some good news.

How is this good? If this keeps up day and night will be over in a blink of an eye...it will be like a strobe light!

lol..well by comparison to all the other news it seemed good.

YEAH IT DOES TO. IT MOVES FROM EAST TO WEST. EVERYBODY NOSE DAT!