It's not just a hypothesis every GPS unit has to account for it. If it wasn't for Einsteins theories GPS would not work. http://www.modelaircraft.org/insider/06_11/gps.htm
--Tigran On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Gene Giannamore < [email protected]> wrote: > I always wondered how gravity/mass affects an atomic clock > > > > > Gene Giannamore > Abide International Inc. > Technical Support > 561 1st Street West > Sonoma,Ca.95476 > (707) 935-1577 Office > (707) 935-9387 Fax > (707) 766-4185 Cell > [email protected] > www.abideinternational.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:12 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime > > "Many experiments have confirmed time dilation, such as atomic clocks < > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_clock> onboard a Space Shuttle < > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle> running slower than > synchronized Earth-bound inertial clocks." > > > > So you don't have to reach relativistic speeds, and it's not just a > hypothesis. > > > > Carl > > > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:51 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers > > > > boys boys boys... > > > > relativistic time is still only a hypothesis. while it apparently describes > certain events that occur in the universe, until a human object is > accelerated to relativistic speeds, decelerates, and then returns to earth > (with or without an additional relativistic interval during the return), and > has the results of the internal clock evaluated - it cannot even be > considered a theory - much less a fact. > > > > also, even IF it should be a theory - who knows what are the special corner > cases to which it applies and to which it may not? einstein himself > predicted and described continua in which relativity may/would not apply. > > > > any object which has mass curves space-time. while einstein depended upon > that, it wasn't part of his special-relativity theories, but was instead an > axiom of the lorentz-fitzgerald equations (which described and explained the > failure of the michelson-morley experiment) and independently derived by > einstein as a part of general relativity (years later). > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Steven M. Caesare [[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 10:27 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers > > And if you've managed to curve space-time. > > > > Which is why I've never had good success with GPO's near black holes. > > > > -sc > > > > From: Webster [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 9:21 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers > > > > From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] > Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers > > > > Well, not according to Einstein... > > > > It all depends on how fast you are traveling. > > > > > > Webster > > > > From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[email protected]] > Subject: RE: GPO's and remote servers > > > > Computers don't care about time zones, they exist only to display time for > humans. Any time settings you establish are converted to universal time > based on the TZ of your machine. And universal time is the same everywhere. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
