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The 'nym-shifting troll trolled as "Joda Christakos":
Paul B. Andersen wrote:
Den 26.02.2026 08:42, skrev Maciej Wo+|niak:
On 11/2/2025 12:27 PM, Paul B. Andersen wrote:
The orbital time of a GPS satellite is half a sidereal day,
or 43082.04525 UTC seconds (measured on the geoid).
The orbital time of a GPS satellite measured by a clock in the
satellite is 43082.04525(1 + 4.4647e-10) SI seconds.
Quite correct!
This measurement confirms the prediction of GR.
Thanks for reminding us!
you may thank all you want, since is wrong. That's a combination of both
SR and GR, one of which is subtracted.
This is an approximation that works for small masses, but it does not give
the exact result. General relativity is not some addition to special relativity, it is a *generalization* of the former to a curved and dynamic a spacetime.
Both the so-called "special-relativistic" and "general-relativistic" contribution can be derived from the Schwarzschild metric assuming different conditions.
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