Timeline for In what way has GPS had an impact on our understanding of physics?
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| Jul 27, 2016 at 6:32 | vote | accept | AntiGreyMatter | ||
| Jul 26, 2016 at 11:47 | history | edited | auden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2016 at 10:10 | comment | added | AntiGreyMatter | @RedGrittyBrick - good point, it isn't much less but it still is less and by just that change we can see a change in time in the nano seconds, which isn't much, but when you use it in an equation with the constant speed of light which is another tiny number the few nano seconds that don't matter to a human can throw your distance off by kilometers. | |
| Jul 26, 2016 at 10:01 | answer | added | Wolpertinger | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 26, 2016 at 9:59 | comment | added | RedGrittyBrick | Re "in space with less gravity" -- GPS satellites in low earth orbit still experience 9 m/s² compared to 9.81 m/s² down here. That isn't much less. | |
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| Jul 26, 2016 at 9:53 | comment | added | user108787 | This is a list type question (frowned upon) and almost all of the applications will be engineering related imo . That's why I down voted it, sorry. | |
| Jul 26, 2016 at 9:51 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2016 at 9:49 | history | asked | AntiGreyMatter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |