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		bsder on Dec 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Simple Rules ‘Bootstrap’ the Laws of Physics And yet, funnily enough, your phone needs a more thorough understanding of gravity than you do. The GPS system must correct for relativistic effects that cause the atomic clocks to shift relative to ground.

saagarjha on Dec 9, 2019 [–]

Isn’t this corrected by the satellites themselves?

bsder on Dec 10, 2019 | [–]

Mostly, but there are still correlations between the satellites that are corrected by the receiver.

The Earth's gravity field is not deterministic.

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