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by westurner 753 days ago
"Matrix Theory: Relativity Without Relative Space or Time" https://youtube.com/watch?v=B94o-P93ExU&

Does the time difference due to time dilation due to relativity change suddenly upon orbiting or landing on another planet spherical reference frame?
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lxgr 753 days ago
Not suddenly, but gradually as you enter/leave the gravitational well.

The dominating relativistic factor is the gravitational potential (ie general relativity), not the orbital velocity (special relativity), as far as I understand.

GPS compensates for both by offsetting the frequency standard of the satellites’ atomic clocks accordingly.

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