[time-nuts] Pulsars make a GPS for the cosmos

[Tom Knox]

It seems you would need to think of the Pulsar as the clock behind the GPS sat. You then have an algorithm to add the other need information at the rec end. To make things easier add to the constellation one master clock signal with corrections and other needed info from earth. 

Thomas Knox



> From: ghane0 at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:48:14 +0800
> To: time-nuts at febo.com
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Pulsars make a GPS for the cosmos
> 
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 3:59 PM, REEVES Paul <Paul.Reeves at uk.thalesgroup.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > Some of them might be.......  you could certainly speculate that any
> > culture that has attained sufficient technology to make interstellar travel
> > possible (and need navigation beacons) would probably have sufficient power
> > to 'engineer' the occasional neutron star into the correct configuration.
> 
> 
> Question: So Pulsars would be covered by the ITU-R "Dissemination by Radio"
> rules?  How would you encode leap-seconds :-)
> 
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