http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/events/eventmap.php
Did any South American Climbers feel this? Got to be some news here.
8.8 earthquak in Chile, news says 500 time more severe than the Hati quake.
by Norman » Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:01 pm
by phydeux » Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:15 am
by Diego Sahagún » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:42 pm
by Diego Sahagún » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:49 pm
TacoDelRio wrote:Kinda cool video my buddy linked to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imfd2tTpxv4
Nothing dramatic, but it's interesting.
by Diego Sahagún » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:57 pm
by Diego Sahagún » Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:11 pm
by RayMondo » Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:01 pm
by Day Hiker » Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:55 am
RayMondo wrote:. . . GPS clocks are corrected for Relativity.
Because an observer on the ground sees the satellites in motion relative to them, Special Relativity predicts that we should see their clocks ticking more slowly. . . . Special Relativity predicts that the on-board atomic clocks on the satellites should fall behind clocks on the ground by about 7 microseconds per day because of the slower ticking rate due to the time dilation effect of their relative motion.
Further, the satellites are in orbits high above the Earth, where the curvature of spacetime [ ] due to the Earth's mass is less than it is at the Earth's surface. A prediction of General Relativity is that clocks closer to a massive object will seem to tick more slowly than those located further away. . . . As such, when viewed from the surface of the Earth, the clocks on the satellites appear to be ticking faster than identical clocks on the ground. A calculation using General Relativity predicts that the clocks in each GPS satellite should get ahead of ground-based clocks by 45 microseconds per day.
The combination of these two relativitic effects means that the clocks on-board each satellite should tick faster than identical clocks on the ground by about 38 microseconds per day ( 45-7=38 )!
by Snowslogger » Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:48 pm
TacoDelRio wrote:Kinda cool video my buddy linked to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imfd2tTpxv4
Nothing dramatic, but it's interesting.
by Norman » Sun Mar 21, 2010 3:29 am
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