I think this is a difficult counterfactual to assess, we didn’t develop clock accurate enough to notice the time dilation until 50 plus years after the theory of relativity was published.
Still, how long would it take someone to work it out empirically enough to have confidence that there wasn’t just some bug somewhere? Maybe they would mothball the GPS project for not working before figuring it out? It’s hard to know, 50 years in an alternate timeline allows for a lot of domino effect
Still, how long would it take someone to work it out empirically enough to have confidence that there wasn’t just some bug somewhere? Maybe they would mothball the GPS project for not working before figuring it out? It’s hard to know, 50 years in an alternate timeline allows for a lot of domino effect