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Clock paradox
The statement, resulting from Einstein's special theory of relativity, that if one clock is moving with respect to another, the moving clock will be found to be running slower than the other. The paradox is of little importance in surveying except when clocks at widely separated locations are to be synchronised by moving a clock from the one location to the other. In an experiment in which four cesium clocks were carried around the world, it was found that moving the clocks in the direction of rotation of the Earth slowed the moving clocks up, while moving them in the opposite direction speeded them up.
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