In the past month, Earth experienced some of its shortest days on record. The planet spun quickly enough to shave 1.4 milliseconds off of its usual 24-hour day. But what if Earth started spinning so fast we could feel it?
New Scientist Book Club has been reading Alex Foster’s debut novel, Circular Motion, in which he charts what would happen if Earth sped up not just by a millisecond, but a minute, or an hour, or 12 hours.
The straightforward effects of the sun rising and setting ever-more frequently are easy to imagine, but once the planet speeds up enough, though, scheduling snafus become the least of the characters’ worries.
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