The classic relationship assumption meets scientific existential crisis! While she's worried about romantic competition, his brain is spiraling down a geological time-travel rabbit hole. The Earth's rotation has actually been slowing down over millions of years (by about 2.3 milliseconds per century), meaning prehistoric days were indeed shorter. Scientists use atomic clocks and radiometric dating to measure these changes, but his 2 AM brain can't handle the temporal paradox of how the first accurate timepiece was calibrated without a reference point. It's the perfect example of how science brains derail into fascinating but utterly useless thought experiments exactly when they should be sleeping.
Insomnia Inducing Thoughts
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