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相对论有没有用（Is there any use of relativity） Is there any use of relativity? Li Miao, a researcher at the Institute of theoretical physics, often writes popular science articles for newspapers and magazines, and also loves to make some uncomfortable remarks. His recent article read, the reason behind China science due to Chinese too utilitarian, always ask what is the use of a scientific study of public life, and in fact some great scientific discovery is not what the actual application value. He cites examples of Einsteins special theory of relativity and general relativity. Our attitude towards scientific research is not necessarily utilitarian, and the results of basic research may not have practical value, but the researchers case has not been raised. Mainly used in the micro world and Yu speed, the world view of Einstein theory of relativity seems very distant from our daily life, in fact, it also has practical value, a famous example is the global positioning system (GPS). In more than ten years ago, GPS was highly sophisticated, and now it has entered the ordinary people, as long as spend hundreds of dollars for a vehicle mounted GPS navigator, or a flower, two thousand dollars to buy a mobile phone with GPS, you can know what the exact location on the earth at any time. GPS is 24 by the GPS satellite in the United States Air Force launch position (in addition to several backup satellite), each satellite is carrying the atomic clock, their timing is very accurate, the error is less than one hundred thousand 1/100000000, every error is not more than 10 nanosecond (1 ns is equal to 1 billion of a second), not stop transmitting radio signal report time and track position. The positions of the GPS satellites in the air are well planned, and at least 4 of them can be seen at any time on any part of the earth. The GPS navigator calculates the location by comparing the differences in time signals from 4 GPS satellites. The GPS satellites orbit the earth at a speed of 140