{"id":29803,"date":"2023-10-16T00:16:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T04:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=29803"},"modified":"2023-10-16T00:16:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T04:16:53","slug":"gps-and-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=29803","title":{"rendered":"GPS and Relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu\/pogge.1\/Ast162\/Unit5\/gps.html\">GPS and Relativity<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p>good explainer on why GPS and other satnavs need to account for relativity.  and the note 1 explains why GPS uses trilateration, not triangulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: GPS and Relativity good explainer on why GPS and other satnavs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1590,140,466,1823],"class_list":["post-29803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-gps","tag-paul","tag-physics","tag-relativity","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29805,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29803\/revisions\/29805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}