When Einstein Was Wrong Jeremy Bernstein, reply by Priyamvada Natarajan To the Editors: In a recent interesting review of two books on the nature of science, Priyamvada Natarajan briefly discusses the role of the theory of relativity in the rate of satellite clocks that circle the earth as part of the GPS system. She notes that the special theory of relativity—which Einstein published in 1905—predicts that moving clocks run slower than identical stationary clocks. But there is a second effect—gravitation—which also predicts slower clock rates.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:20:50 +0000