Torn Mind
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You can live in your "winning-by-technicality" fantasies. It's still illogical nonsense.@Torn_Mind, As your last reply is rather complicated, I'll have to reply you piecemeal.
your link:
Indeed, you have found an interesting link showing how the Chinese Beidou system is based on General Relativity - Congratulations and Sorry at the same time.
But a google search of "Beijing Satellite Navigation Center" gives only an address, nothing else.
The only official government links on the Beidou system are as follow:
1) 中国卫星导航系统管理办公室测试评估研究中心
Test and Assessment Research Center of China Satellite Navigation Office
This is the official website of Beidou. There is no mentioned at all that Beidou needs Einstein's relativity.系统介绍
www.csno-tarc.cn
2) COMPASS/BeiDou Coordinate and Time Reference Systems
YANG YUANXI and TANG JING
China National Administration of GNSS and Applications (CNAGA)
HAN CHUNHAO
Beijing Global Information Center of Application and Exploration
Abstract: "Satellite navigation needs coordinate and time references. It is impossible to realize interoperability for multiple GNSS systems without a consistent reference coordinate system and time system. Compass/BeiDou satellite navigation system follows the rules of compatibility and interoperability defined by the International Committee of GNSS (ICG). The coordinate system of BeiDou is aligned to the China Geodetic Coordinate System 2000 (CGCS 2000), which is aligned to ITRS. BeiDou system time (BDT) is an internal, continuous navigation time scale, without leap second. BDT is linked to the national UTC(k), which is consistent to UTC. The status and existing problems and future developments are described.COMPASS/BeiDou Coordinate and Time Reference Systems--Yang Yuanxi, Tang Jing, and Han Chunhao | Global Navigation Satellite Systems: Report of a Joint Workshop of the National Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Engineering |The Nationa
Read chapter COMPASS/BeiDou Coordinate and Time Reference Systems--Yang Yuanxi, Tang Jing, and Han Chunhao: The Global Positioning System (GPS) has revolu...nap.nationalacademies.org
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2012. Global Navigation Satellite Systems: Report of a Joint Workshop of the National Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/13292."
3) http://en.beidou.gov.cn/SYSTEMS/ICD/201902/P020190227702348791891.pdf
China Satellite Navigation Office, 2019
All these official documents on the Beidou navigation coordinate systems makes not a single mention about the need for any relativistic adjustments - not special relativity nor general relativity
It's a report, not a tell-all of how things work.
Indeed, it literally states:
"The status and existing problems and future developments are described."
Therefore, what is not described are the processes behind the operation of GPS because it's simply not within the scope of the paper. It describes the aforementioned things, it's not an instruction manual. Your reading comprehension is simply no better than typical humans(which not great).
It's not going to be a breakdown of how the system works, because everyone already knows and accepts how it works.
Indeed, we can break down your argument into a generalized form.
"Authority X did not provide information in an 'official' publications about how a thing (usually machine/appliance/etc) M works, therefore the thing doesn't use those physical processes".
Most products don't tell you the underpinnings behind their operation. Owning a car won't come with a detailed repair manual with things like what voltages to check. That doesn't mean the principles behind electricity, combustion, etc are not applied.
Lack of communicating underlying processes or calculations does not entail those underlying processes or calculation are not applied.