Space Daily·3 min read·medium
The tides are slowly stealing rotational energy from Earth and giving it to the Moon, lengthening our days while pushing the Moon about 3.8 centimetres farther away each year — a transaction scientist
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Ainura Kalau
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Scientific research confirms that gravitational interactions between the Earth and the Moon are causing the Earth's rotation to slow down while pushing the Moon further away. This process, which Galileo once dismissed, explains the mechanics behind the rhythmic rising and falling of ocean tides.
What Galileo dismissed as childish nonsense turned out to reshape our entire planet—a gravitational dance so subtle yet relentless that it's literally slowing Earth's spin and remaking the Moon's orbit one laser measurement at a time.
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