Time is not absolute but variable, meaning it passes at different rates depending on an object's speed and gravitational field; this principle, discovered over a century ago, is essential for GPS satellite technology, which must account for time dilation effects to maintain accurate positioning, as uncorrected time differences would cause GPS errors of approximately 6 miles within a single day.
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You know, I mean, they they they figured out that time isn't the way that we experience it just by really simple brilliant thought processes observations a hundred and some years ago a hundred and little more than a hundred twenty years ago. Yeah, incredible.
>> The idea that the faster you go the slower time is is so hard to wrap one's head around.
And one of the things that I heard you talking about you were talking about GPS satellites and you were saying that GPS satellites because they're going about what are they going like twenty thousand miles an hour something like that?
>> So actually if we want to break this down a little bit there there a couple different effects about time and and one of the things that that you know NASA does is we calibrates the GPS satellites and the signal coming and and you wouldn't I mean I think I heard that I mean we within a day if we didn't take into account the time difference these things are in that we we'd be about six miles off I mean it's in a single day.
>> That's crazy.
>> Oh yeah, it's it's a big deal.
>> That's so crazy.
>> Yeah.
>> That's so crazy and that's just above us.
>> Time really is something I mean this this is not a theory time time is is is variable depending on how fast you're going and also how far off the earth's surface you are or how I
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