NASA: China Has Slowed The Earth's Rotation And Changed The Passage Of Time

All because of one huge man-made structure.

Changing the laws of time is thought to be impossible. However, NASA has said that one man-made structure in China is so huge that it may have affected the Earth's rotation.

This is reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to Yahoo News.

Giant dam that could affect the planet's orbit

Dr. Benjamin Fong Chao of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center presented a study linking the size and weight of the Three Gorges Dam in China to changes in the Earth's orbit.

The World's Largest Power Plant

Completed in 2012, the Three Gorges Dam crosses the Yangtze River near the city of Sandouping and is considered the world's largest power plant in terms of installed capacity.

It is 2,335 meters wide and 185 meters above sea level. The total construction cost reached $20.4 billion.

40 trillion liters of water and microscopic impact

The dam can hold about 40 cubic kilometers of water, which is equivalent to 40 trillion gallons. This causes the Earth's mass to shift, which NASA calculates increases the length of the day by 0.06 microseconds.

It also makes the planet slightly more convex in the equatorial region and flat at the poles.

An almost imperceptible "stretching" of time

Unfortunately, this change in time is completely imperceptible to humans - one microsecond equals 0.000001 seconds, and the dam's impact is only 0.00000006 seconds per day.

To extend a day by just one second, it would take 16,666,666,666 Three Gorges dams, if mass is factored in as a factor.

Impact over the history of the universe

Dr. Chao says this slowing of the planet's rotation is equivalent to about three extra days over the entire history of the universe, which is estimated to be 13.8 billion years old. So there's nothing to worry about.

After the results were published, one Reddit user jokingly asked: "Can we get all these days at once as a three-day weekend?", while another added: "We slowed down the Earth without even waiting for the release of GTA 6 (an upcoming action-adventure video game, - ed.)."

A further blow to flat Earth proponents

And finally, it's another blow to the theories of flat Earth proponents - though one would think that evidence from the world's leading scientists should have already convinced them to abandon such beliefs.

Remember, the Three Gorges project was approved in 1993. The construction of the world's largest dam, measuring 2,300 meters long and 185 meters high, was completed in 2006.

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