Does Earth's Mass Affect the Length of a Day?

sanujan · Aug 1, 2017

Is it true that the time increase (24 hrs becomes 25 or 26 or..)when the mass of Earth is increase? ??

phinds · Aug 1, 2017

sanujan said:

Is it true that the time increase (24 hrs becomes 25 or 26 or..)when the mass of Earth is increase? ??

Not locally, but relative to a remote observer, yes.

Drakkith · Aug 1, 2017

sanujan said:

Is it true that the time increase (24 hrs becomes 25 or 26 or..)when the mass of Earth is increase? ??

Indeed. The rate that time passes on Earth, when viewed by an observer away from Earth, would decrease. For every second that ticked by on the observer's watch, less than a second would pass on Earth. On the Earth, you and I would not notice any change in our own rate of time passage, but we would notice that time passes faster for an observer away from Earth.

Does Earth's Mass Affect the Length of a Day?

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