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Old 29-September-2003, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by oriel36
It is common among relativists to bring in atomic clocks into the discussion to frighten away investigation but the inventor of the cesium clock detested everything about relativity and knew it for the sham it is.
So much of a sham that the frequency of GPS clocks has to be adjusted from their value on the ground in order to compensate for the kinetic and gravitational relativistic shifts. They tested this effect at the beginning of GPS, because of the people that didn't think relativity was correct.
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