Show sees month long day as future possibility hundreds of 0 millions of years hence the day on earth will be as long agthe as alie month due to the retarding e effect of tidal friction on tile the earths rotation says saya popular mechanics magazine doctor jodef cosec J J johnson of tha california institute of Teelin technology who has baa becil studying the subject says that when the day and month become equal the earth always will present the same hemisphere toward the moon nabon a as s oven eben today the moon presents one side continuously to the earth the two bodies will revolve as though attached to the opposite ends of a rigid pole the result ot the gradual slowing blowing down downor of the earth under the pull of solar tidal friction doctor johnson concludes that the danwill day will not become longer than the month present day knowledge of the blas of the earths interior leads him to the conclusion that tile the rigid liar bar situation will continue indefinitely tidal forces will through defor deformation mailon raise a permanent tide in the body of the earth which will keep the day in step with the month forever half the earth will ivill never see the moon and tho the other half 11 1011 ll always havethe have the moon in its sky |