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Could an astronaut use a wrist watch to measure relativistic time dilation?

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Could an astronaut use a wrist watch to measure relativistic time dilation?

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No, because the accumulated time dilation from the motion of the astronauts and their motion through the earth’s gravitational field amounts to less than a micro-second, and you have to have a measurement precision that is about 100 times better than that over the 1 week period so that you see even this effect. Most wrist watches are only good to a second or so.

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