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Einstein's Contribution to Our Understanding of Space and Time
People find Einstein's ideas weird because we don't notice the effects in daily life. We now have instruments of such extraordinary sensitivity that we can easily measure the warping of time just from everyday speeds. The global positioning system relies upon satellites, which are orbiting the Earth and without them you would get lost within minutes. And so this is an application of the theory of relativity.