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by im3w1l 748 days ago
Send three photons A B C. They arrive at times ta, tb, tc. Compute fraction (tc - tb) / (tb - ta). This can encode any positive real number with arbitrary precision. But clearly you need either very precise measurements or send the photons at a very slow rate.
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Special relativity will give limits on how aligned the clocks can be (which should be a function of the distance between the clocks). So there will be precision limits.
Unless the clocks are accelerating, that shouldn't change the ratio between the two time differences, right? If the two ends have a constant velocity relative to each other, then each should perceive the other as being off by a fixed rate.