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Old 04-11-2009, 04:50 PM
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Short answer is "No"

Hi Vaclav,

The length of the day is very, very, very slowly becoming longer and one day (assuming no outside forces act) it will end up at 25 hrs -- and longer. There are several forces, some of which effectively act in opposite directions that change the Earth's rotation period over extremely long time scales.

There is a Wiki article here that explains the guts of what has happened and why here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_acceleration

Hope that helps.


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Les D
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