Do GPS systems require special relativity to work?
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GPS satellite navigation system doesn't use, doesn't need and doesn't prove Einstein's General Relativity. The GPS satellites use classical (Newtonian) relativistic principles to work.
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GPS accounts for relativity by electronically adjusting the rates of the satellite clocks, and by building mathematical corrections into the computer chips which solve for the user's location. Without the proper application of relativity, GPS would fail in its navigational functions within about 2 minutes.
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