IF YOU want to stop global warming, extend daytime hours, and create a more homogeneous climate by putting planet Earth into a new orbit, put this exact time in your diary: 20 July 2006 at 11:39:13 GMT. It says at that these benefits can be achieved by you – yes, you – jumping at that instant. “Å®ÉúСÊÓƵs from the ISA/München confirm,” we are told, “that the planet Earth could be driven out of its current orbital rotation. Professor Hans Niesward and his colleagues at the Department of Gravitationsphysik estimated that it would take a minimum of…
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