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Old 30-November-2004, 10:38 PM
Fortis Fortis is offline
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Originally Posted by Fortis
It is astonishing though, that to provide the current level of accuracy, you have to correct for what was once considered a pretty exotic effect.
What about Dirac's relativistic corrections to the quantum equations?
True, but here we're talking about a bit of consumer electronics calculating a correction factor derived from General Relativity. (It'll be interesting to see how Galileo does.)