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.

Oftentimes, we think of space as an endless, mostly empty vacuum, a silent backdrop where planets, stars, and galaxies play out their dance. We also think of time as something separate, a steady ...