| ▲ | Ekaros 3 hours ago | |
How hard would it be to fix this? Could we theoretically add or subtract enough material or make whole thing slightly more dense or less dense to compensate? | ||
| ▲ | jasomill an hour ago | parent [-] | |
Per Wikipedia, the discrepancy is approximately 74 km, so digging a ditch with an average depth of approximately 74/2π ≅ 12 km around the circumference of the Earth would theoretically fix the problem. Feasibility and geological implications are left as exercises for the reader. Regardless, I suspect a more cost-effective fix would be to redefine the meter to be a couple "legacy" millimeters longer. | ||