Nowadays it's believed that time is passing really
fast, but my dear classmates this is just a cultural product. Actually, time
has passing everytime a little bit slower than before. Why? because our dear
symbol of the night is going away from us. Don't worry! It's not the end of the
world.
In simple words, the tide effect that connects the
moon with our planet has being decreasing. The sun has being causing all this.
Therefore the distance between the beautiful moon and us is growing, affecting
to the energy our planet uses to rotate.
Scientists think that millions of years ago a day
consisted of 22 hours and a year of 397 days, and the moon could be appreciated
in its enormous figure from the earth's surface.
And probably far into the
future a day will last 47 of our present days, and we won't see the moon from
where we are now. A world that obviously, we won't appreciate (the sun will
blow up first with the earth-moon system).
An amazing consequence of this will be that we won't
have total eclipses anymore.
What we must learn about the moon movement is that conventions shouldn't
be believed when we talk about cosmic matter. Our universe can surprise us every
day. What do you think? Are you ready to let the moon go?
I hope you can make it George :)
(Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/09/12/160944289/time-moves-with-the-moon)
Interesting I wasn't aware about that the time was intrinsically related within the earth-moon relation, I Knew that the moon was going away and I’ll tell you why. Because of magnetism and gravitational fields; when the moon goes over the ocean the gravitational field between the earth and the moon is weaker than the one over land, that difference produce distention on the attraction of earth and moon, so every year the moon goes a bite away from the earth. Obviously as you said, billions of years will go before that happen.
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