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The Bells You Can't Hear

How a phone works out where it is by listening to the sky

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Wren: 26 min · Hollis: 28 min

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Your chapters

  1. Lighthouses in the sky

    satellite, orbit

  2. This is where I am

    signal, atomic clock, receiver

  3. Counting after the bell

    time of flight, distance

  4. Where the circles meet

    trilateration, the fourth satellite, relativity correction

  5. Goodnight, old Tock

    the wind-down