And so, another year ends, as another begins.
And so randomly! In fact, we get an extra second this year. A leap second! in fact.
The world's atomic clocks will be stopped for one second. WHY? you may ask.
Leap seconds are needed to reconcile two very different ways of measuring time. Traditionally, humankind has reckoned time by the spin of the Earth and its orbit around the sun. Under this astronomical arrangement, a second is one-86,400th of our planet’s daily rotation. But because of tidal friction and other natural phenomena, that rotation is slowing down by about two-thousandths of a second a day.
How will you celebrate the leap second? I, personally, will take a deep breath and contemplate existence.
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