Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GPS satellites must account for and correct for time dilation For centuries, humans have thought of time as a linear concept - but ...

Tracking time is one of those things that seems easy, until you really start to get into the details of what time actually is. We define a second as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a cesium atom.

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Did you know that moving a clock one inch toward the ground would result in a slower tick compared to the same clock positioned higher up? Gravity doesn't just pull things; it also bends time.