Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/05/30/nasas-race-to-synchronize-earth-and-moon-clocks-and-why-it-matters.html
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With all the current troubles with rockets blowing up on the launch-pad, helium leaks having to be ignored, lunar landers falling over, lunar landers crash landing, and only now lunar clocks bowing to Einstein, it’s really a wonder that it was pretty well managed 55 years ago. …mumbles gormless ancient dude who can still use a slide rule [wink]
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So UTC time isn’t even universal in our universe.
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It’s about damn time. I get sick to death of looking up and seeing the thing blinking “12:00” over and over again.
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So… if the speed of light is constant… and speed is a distance over time… and time is not constant…
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The distance will distort too. But because we’re rushing into the future the time adds up. The distance doesn’t, and so a change of less than one part per trillion isn’t so important.
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Well as the saying goes, give an inch and they’ll take a mile… (or something like that.)
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