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:: What you say is just not true. GPS was designed with an understanding of the magnitude of the relativistic effects. The effects are well-understood, and no one was nominated for a Nobel prize for predicting the effects. Yes, there were engineers who didn't study relativity and didn't think that relativistic effects would be significant. They have been proven wrong. There are no unresolved disputes. You have been given several references that tell the story. [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 02:41, 29 July 2007 (EDT)
 
:: What you say is just not true. GPS was designed with an understanding of the magnitude of the relativistic effects. The effects are well-understood, and no one was nominated for a Nobel prize for predicting the effects. Yes, there were engineers who didn't study relativity and didn't think that relativistic effects would be significant. They have been proven wrong. There are no unresolved disputes. You have been given several references that tell the story. [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 02:41, 29 July 2007 (EDT)
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::: To sum:
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*** no physicists have been identified who supposedly incorporated relativity into the GPS design
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*** no papers exist describing how relativity *was* (not "might be") used in GPS
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*** references that have been provided describe disagreements among physicists about the relativistic predictions for GPS
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*** those claiming that GPS confirms relativity compared to Newtonian mechanics don't know whether Newtonian mechanics also predicts time differences, which renders the comparison pointless.
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::: I realize that historical revisionism is common in many areas, but I would hope that science would adhere to a higher standard.  Sometimes, unfortunately, science seems be even more vulnerable to revisionism.  Godspeed.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 11:04, 29 July 2007 (EDT)
    
== Theory of Relativity (moved from [[User talk:Aschlafly]]) ==
 
== Theory of Relativity (moved from [[User talk:Aschlafly]]) ==
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