reference frame
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The U.S. rightly designates GPS as critical infrastructure, but the reference frame that gives every GPS signal its meaning enjoys no such protection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Although GPS satellites are U.S.-owned military hardware, the reference frame relies on an international patchwork of aging radio-telescopes staring at quasars, laser-ranging stations and physical ground markers anchored to shifting tectonic plates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
In the electron's reference frame, the laser intensity appeared to be about 50% of the Schwinger limit, triggering nonlinear QED phenomena.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
However, the notion of continental groupings as a meaningful reference frame for understanding human biological variation persisted.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 22, 2022
In our reference frame, the vessel had put on an incredible velocity, and covered the nine-hundred-odd light-years around Rigel in six months.
From Out Around Rigel by Robert H. Wilson
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