<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:23 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="im">On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Mike Dougherty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com" target="_blank">msd001@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>> I'm happier with relativity being a best-so-far explanation* that seems to work well-enough for the people who use it. However, it doesn't help much for driving to the grocery store </div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Actually not just relativity but General Relativity helps a lot if you're driving to the grocery store if you use GPS. Because the GPS satellites are moving fast Special Relativity says the atomic
clocks on the satellites will fall behind clocks on the ground by 7 microseconds per day; but General relativity says that because those satellites are further from the Earth's core than you are and in a shallower gravity well the atomic
clocks on the satellites will gain on the clocks on the ground by 45 microseconds per day. So when viewed from the surface the clocks in the satellites are ticking faster by 38 microseconds (45-7=38). Without correcting for relativity the error in GPS would grow by about 6 miles PER DAY and you'd never find the grocery store.<br>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ah touche. I don't use GPS to find the grocery store though, I still have some onboard CPU & memory left.<br></div></div>