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It was suggested repeatedly, and it was then repeatedly mentioned that GPS already takes relatively into account.



This comment got me wondering how important it is for navigation to take into account relativistic time dilation in GPS. Apparently: very. Turns out that ignoring it would cause a drift in position of about 10km/day. http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps....


nice dig!




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