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Steve's biggest fans would admit. however, einstein wasn't necessarily the smartest in terms of mental processing power, a physicist at his time. he couldn't even get a job at a university. he was a patent clerk. yet people who were coming up with sort of the equations, special relativity, david hillberg who does general relativity. but none of them thought out of the box and thought differently and said, this means everything is different. it means time is not absolute. it means the fabric of space is bent. this is what steve jobs did is not be smarter than bill gates but sort of step back an...

>> so maybe the 24 hour day is slowing down, but we can't measure it? >> yes, ma shg, maybe in dinos it is 18 hours in modern time slowed down. >> so anything that i have to worry about or plan for? >> well, the practical effect is on telecommunications. the practical effect is on the satellites that are orbiting at g geostation orbits and the earth has sped up a little bit. it means that the earth will slide out underneath them a little bit. it is remarkable that sat nav as we say in london or gps we say in north america is remarkable that those things depend on special relativity. without un...