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Fun fact: When designing the original system there was disbelief amongst some involved that the relativistic effects were either real or relevant so they built
by jahnu 15y ago
Fun fact: When designing the original system there was disbelief amongst some involved that the relativistic effects were either real or relevant so they built in a switch to be able to remotely disable those parts of the calculations. They never did disable them.
- Angostura 15y agoActually, that gose down as the funnest fact that I've learned for at least a month, so thank you.
- jahnu 15y agoI don't remember for sure but I think I learned that from one of these lectures... "Particle Physics for Non-Physicists: A Tour of the Microcosmos" http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=1247 http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.asp...