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Ask Me Anything | April 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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How to Compare Clocks on the International Space Station

Nikita Loza-voi says, priority question. As far as I know, a clock on the International Space Station is going about 0.007 seconds behind a synchronized clock on Earth's surface for every six months in orbit. What I don't understand is why it's specifically the clock on ISS that goes slower relative to the one on Earth and not vice versa. But this is a combined feature of both special relativity and general relativity.

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