{"id":17701,"date":"2017-01-09T14:46:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T14:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=17701"},"modified":"2017-01-09T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T14:46:50","slug":"time-travel-aka-leap-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2017\/01\/09\/time-travel-aka-leap-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Travel (aka Leap Second)"},"content":{"rendered":"

LYRICS
\nWait a second?
\nI can’t wait a second
\n’cause I reckon
\nThe Earth is slowing down
\nIt’s been found
\nThe Earth is slowing down
\nFrom going ’round<\/p>\n

Leap a second
\nAnd before long
\nA second second
\nThus this song
\nThe Earth is slowing down
\nIt’s been found
\nThe Earth is slowing down
\nFrom going ’round<\/p>\n

The spinoff of taking a spin off
\nYou scoff?
\nWell, do you wanna get off?
\n’cause
\nThe Earth is slowing down
\nIt’s been found
\nThe Earth is slowing down
\nFrom going ’round<\/p>\n

It’s that mean solar time
\nOr UT1
\nTry to coordinate Universal time
\nOr UTC
\nAnd I for one can see
\nYou won’t even give away
\nThe time of day
\nNo way<\/p>\n

The Earth is slowing down
\nIt’s been found
\nThe Earth is slowing down
\nFrom going ’round<\/p>\n

Time Traval (aka LeapSecond).mp3<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a>
Screenshot of the UTC clock from www.time.gov during the leap second on December 31, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ABOUT THE SONG
\nStyle: ExperiMental Music
\nChords: E B E –> 7th fret and slide down to E
\nRecording: digital 8-track stereo recorded live<\/p>\n

This song is about the Earth slowing down. Why is the Earth slowing down?
\nThe Earth is slowing down and speeding up for many reasons. In general, the Earth is slowing down it’s rotation due to friction. The wind and the oceans and mountains, tides and gravity cause friction that slows an object in motion.<\/p>\n

A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time, or UT1. Without such a correction, time reckoned by Earth’s rotation drifts away from atomic time because of irregularities in the Earth’s rate of rotation. Since this system of correction was implemented in 1972, 27 leap seconds have been inserted, the most recent on December 31, 2016 at 23:59:60 UTC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, every once in a while humans travel a second forward in time. “Specifically, a positive leap second is inserted between second 23:59:59 of a chosen UTC calendar date (the last day of a month, usually June 30 or December 31) and second 00:00:00 of the following date.”<\/p>\n

Why is the moon falling farther away from us?<\/p>\n

The migration of the Moon away from the Earth is mainly due to the action of the Earth’s tides. The Moon is kept in orbit by the gravitational force that the Earth exerts on it, but the Moon also exerts a gravitational force on our planet and this causes the movement of the Earth’s oceans to form a tidal bulge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Vocals, Guitar, Organ<\/p>\n

Part of the 4D Music Experiment<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
\nby Daniel Brouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LYRICS Wait a second? I can’t wait a second ’cause I reckon The Earth is slowing down It’s been found The Earth is slowing down From going ’round Leap a second And before long A second second Thus this song The Earth is slowing down It’s been found The Earth is slowing down From going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,9,14],"tags":[3206,198,269,272,312,334,3423,458,539,546,556,563,613,1281,1928,737,759,781,782,796,3422,2260,857,897],"class_list":["post-17701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-chaos-theory","category-chords","category-daniel","category-lyrics","tag-4d-music","tag-daniel-brouse","tag-experimental","tag-extemporaneous","tag-free","tag-futuristic","tag-interplanetary-travel","tag-keyboards","tag-mp3","tag-mp4","tag-music","tag-music-videos","tag-original","tag-progressive-rock","tag-psychedelia","tag-science","tag-singer","tag-songs","tag-songwriter","tag-space","tag-space-rock","tag-synthesizers","tag-time","tag-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17701"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17713,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17701\/revisions\/17713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}