Newtonian GPS would place you on the wrong planet!

Simon explains why our modern satellite navigation (the Global Positioning System or GPS) is a great experimental proof for Einstein’s relativity theory and what would happen if the software calculated your car’s location using Newtonian dynamics.

Simon learned about this from Ian Stewart’s awesome book “17 Equations that Changed the World”, Chapter 13 (Relativity).

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