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From: Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
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Subject: Re: No Observable Twin Paradox in GPS
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:47:20 +0800
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On 30-Apr-25 10:02 am, rhertz wrote:
> Despite SR being touted as critical for GPS, there's no observable time
> dilation between two satellites moving at the same speed in opposite
> directions, as the twin paradox would suggest.

The issue is not between the rates for different satellites, but for the 
rates between each satellite and an observer on the ground.

Sylvia.