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Calculating god5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Without those formulas, our computers and smartphones would soon get disastrously out of sync with the GPS satellites, which orbit in a different time. For instance, the Global Positioning System (GPS) we rely on to accurately and safely guide us as we pilot our cars, ships, planes, and spaceships only works because it’s programmed, based on Einstein’s theories of relativity, to compensate for the distance between earth and space. The higher up from the earth something is, the weaker the gravitational pull and the faster time moves.Īn implication of this is that we frequently put our trust in a frame of reference on time different from the one we experience. ![]() For us terrestrials, that frame of reference is earth’s gravitational force. Did you know your head ages faster than your feet? Scientists have confirmed this, proving again that Albert Einstein was spot-on in his theories of relativity: the speed of time is relative to a particular frame of reference. ![]()
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