Quote (murder567 @ Nov 6 2011 09:27am)
Honestly I'd be shocked if the elite team of scientists forgot to take into account the relativistic motion of satellites.
My AP Physics class in high school learned about that and did problems with it, its common knowledge among a group of PhD's I'd assume.
Even people with PhD's are capable of oversight, especially when you have multiple groups of people working collaboratively on separate parts of the problem. Each group could have thought the other was going to take the time dilation into effect and neither did it.
But like we said. Something that would shake the core of physics needs to be reproducible.