AMA | October 2024

12873.917 - 12890.064 Sean Carroll

But maybe that's not even a big – kind of problem. If you didn't know about relativity, you would do the experiment. You would put satellites up there, you would realize it was giving you the wrong answer, and you would figure out how to correct for it. The problem would be you wouldn't know why. You wouldn't know why it was going wrong, right? Relativity provides that answer.