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by tropo
2641 days ago
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No, but cost probably does. There have been a number of satellites flown (GOCE, GRACE, SLATS) with the sort of equipment you'd need. With that equipment, simply measure the strength of gravity in multiple parts of the plane. This gets you altitude, just as GPS or air pressure would, and then you can determine the angle of the plane. An edit as response to the followup mentioning Einstein, due to HN throttle: Yes, yes... and it doesn't matter for this purpose, because you can measure gravity at multiple points within the aircraft and because gravity falls off with distance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law#Gravitation We have built equipment sensitive enough to measure this difference and we have flown it in satellites. |
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https://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/topics_relativity_gravi...