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Not sure - I'm doing some leg work on the internet looking, but the sources I'm finding aren't something I necessarily would trust. Radar of course uses the same principle to measure the distance to a target. If the distance to the target were known, then you could use your radar essentially as a clock: the time it takes to emit a radar pulse and then for it to return could be calibrated based on the known distance and speed of light. However, you would not be able to make a time dilation-immune clock this way on a relativistic space ship because the space ship would experience Lorentz Contraction, which would change the distance between the radar emitter and the target, so they aren't known anymore. Click Here to return to the search form.
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