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Rerun: It's All Relative

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Trilateration and GPS

This chapter explains the concept of trilateration and how it is used in the Global Positioning System (GPS), both with satellites and cell phone towers. It also discusses the accuracy of atomic clocks on satellites and how they are affected by general relativity.

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