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Re:How I found glaring errors in Einstein's calculations (2009) by augustl on Thursday May 14, 2015 @06:57AM (#9544335)
Time really slows down. GPS satelites wouldn't have worked if it wasn't taken into account.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_P...

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Re:How I found glaring errors in Einstein's calculations (2009) by mkagenius on Thursday May 14, 2015 @07:12AM (#9544384)
That is again just the clock going haywire.
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Re:How I found glaring errors in Einstein's calculations (2009) by soneil on Thursday May 14, 2015 @09:42AM (#9545090)
It's the clocks on all 24 GPS satellites, all 24 Glonass satellites, and the 8 (so far) Galileo satellites, all going "haywire" by precisely the amount predicted by a theory developed before the first satellite went into space.

And it's not a paltry amount - if we didn't understand and plan for this amount, the GPS system would have an error drift of 10km (~6 miles) per day

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Re:How I found glaring errors in Einstein's calculations (2009) by augustl on Thursday May 14, 2015 @12:21PM (#9545975)
No, it's an attribute of time itself, not mechanical clock issues. I _highly_ recommend the book "About Time"

http://www.amazon.com/About-Time-Einsteins-Unfinished-Revolu...

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