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GPS satellites compensate for time dilation effects
| Embarrassed to the bone stage becky | 11/15/12 |
| Aromatic brindle community account | 11/15/12 |
| Embarrassed to the bone stage becky | 11/15/12 |
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| Mewling amethyst deer antler gaping | 11/15/12 |
| racy state chad | 11/15/12 |
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Date: November 15th, 2012 1:49 AM Author: Embarrassed to the bone stage becky ...in order to function accurately. I did not realize this until today, but it makes sense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_Positioning_System#Relativity
In other words: they have to compensate for (among other things) the fact that time moves more slowly for the satellites than it does on earth due to the rate of speed at which the satellites are moving.
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Date: November 15th, 2012 1:51 AM Author: Aromatic brindle community account this is common sense brother. are u a polisci shithead brother? |
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Date: November 15th, 2012 1:59 AM Author: Embarrassed to the bone stage becky No I'm not - I just hadn't thought about it. Time dilation is one of those things that is generally incompatible with our everyday understanding of our place in the universe and how we relate to the world. It's kind of wild that such a mundane aspect of everyday life requires us to rely on assumptions that most ordinary people would struggle to understand and/or reconcile with their existing world view.
EDIT: should add: 20% or more of the people using GPS satellite technologies in their everyday lives in this country still believe in young earth creationism. The discontinuity is remarkable. |
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Date: October 15th, 2024 8:07 PM Author: Mahchine'ing the $ecret truth of the univer$e (Do you $ee it yet? The Mahchine's 180 Vi$ion?) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2114552&forum_id=2#48201788) |
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Date: November 15th, 2012 2:04 AM Author: Mewling amethyst deer antler gaping crazy, isn't it? I read GPS would be around ~6miles off if they didn't compensate for those effects (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2114552&forum_id=2#22048622) |
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Date: November 15th, 2012 2:09 AM Author: racy state chad "aren't GPSes crazy?" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2114552&forum_id=2#22048640) |
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Date: November 15th, 2012 2:13 AM Author: Embarrassed to the bone stage becky Indeed. And yet the vast majority of people don't realize just how crazy they are.
They are, in fact, crazier than magnets. |
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Date: October 15th, 2024 8:05 PM Author: rate me as a blank bump (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2114552&forum_id=2#48201784) |
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Date: October 15th, 2024 8:10 PM Author: ChadGPT-5 time dilation sounds like some transitioning condition (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2114552&forum_id=2#48201800) |