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I wonder if you have to account for localized gravity differences for that kind of thing.
by totetsu 3y ago
I wonder if you have to account for localized gravity differences for that kind of thing.
- LAC-Tech 3y agoChatGPT tells me that the time difference between the top of mount everest and sea level is in the nano second range - so completely dwarfed by network latency and maybe doesn't matter? Pure speculation on my behalf though.
- defrost 3y agoIf you were to supply that answer in a group concerned with time and gravity they might ask you if that was the right question to ask wrt "greatest relativistic time seperation between two points on 'the earth's surface'" ChatGPT likely won't help - but you could look into the fact the the earth isn't round, being an oblate spheroid with 20km less radius at the poles than the equator. Of course the fact the ideal WGS84 ellipsoid, the official mean global sea level, and the geoid (gravitational surface of equipotential) don't all align must surely come into play here - and that bloody great "gravitational hole" somewhere south of Ceylon. https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog862/node/1820 https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog862/node/1820 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System