{"id":191251,"date":"2024-06-15T00:23:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T05:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/its-official-the-rotation-of-earths-inner-core-really-is-slowing-down"},"modified":"2024-06-15T00:23:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T05:23:21","slug":"its-official-the-rotation-of-earths-inner-core-really-is-slowing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/its-official-the-rotation-of-earths-inner-core-really-is-slowing-down","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official: The Rotation of Earth\u2019s Inner Core Really Is Slowing Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-official-the-rotation-of-earths-inner-core-really-is-slowing-down2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rotation of Earth\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-detect-signs-of-hidden-structure-inside-earths-core\">inner core<\/a> really has slowed down, a new study has confirmed, opening up questions about what\u2019s happening in the center of the planet and how we might be affected.<\/p>\n<p>Led by a team from the University of Southern California (USC), the researchers behind the finding think this change in the core\u2019s rotation could change the length of our days \u2013 albeit only by a few fractions of a second, so you won\u2019t need to reset your watches just yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I first saw the seismograms that hinted at this change, I was stumped,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/today.usc.edu\/usc-study-confirms-the-rotation-of-earths-inner-core-has-slowed\/\">says<\/a> Earth scientist John Vidale from USC. \u201cBut when we found two dozen more observations signaling the same pattern, the result was inescapable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rotation of Earth\u2019s inner core really has slowed down, a new study has confirmed, opening up questions about what\u2019s happening in the center of the planet and how we might be affected. Led by a team from the University of Southern California (USC), the researchers behind the finding think this change in the core\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}