Well it’s not so much that the connection was wrong. It just didn’t fit the pattern of “If this were real, people would be making a lot of money from it”. Because relativity doesn’t make GPS easier or cheaper. It’s just that if relativity were false, our GPS systems would be constructed differently.
I did not know that the GPS—relativity connection was wrong. Thanks.
Well it’s not so much that the connection was wrong. It just didn’t fit the pattern of “If this were real, people would be making a lot of money from it”. Because relativity doesn’t make GPS easier or cheaper. It’s just that if relativity were false, our GPS systems would be constructed differently.
Failing to fit the pattern counts as wrong. The comic I cited is making an implicit assertion that that pattern holds, and this assertion is wrong.