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How do they work out around impossibility to perfectly synchronize clocks at a distance due to special relativity?
by deepsun 9y ago
How do they work out around impossibility to perfectly synchronize clocks at a distance due to special relativity?
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoThey work around it by having the stations not move with respect to each other.
- deepsun 9y agoWell, I was joking... Obviously, microseconds don't matter there. By the way, stations do move with respect to each other due to Earth rotation. Nevertheless, it's still theoretically impossible to perfectly synchronize two clocks even if they don't move with respect to each other. It's tightly coupled to problem of measuring speed of light in one direction. We cannot do that, we can only measure there-and-back speed, and then divide it by two.But there's no way to show that those are actually equal legs.