{"id":1071,"date":"2018-07-15T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/did-you-know-that-uber-relies-on-einsteins-research\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T12:34:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T10:34:50","slug":"did-you-know-that-uber-relies-on-einsteins-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/nl\/did-you-know-that-uber-relies-on-einsteins-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that Uber relies on Einstein\u2019s research ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Uber relies heavily on GPS, which would never work without Einstein&#8217;s general theory of relativity !<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Einstein&#8217;s research didn&#8217;t lead to immediate innovations. But today, his work has a profound impact. This is a typical pattern. Would Einstein ever have imagined hailing an Uber ride\u00a0thanks to his theory of relativity ?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not..<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rdcDD8iBzCA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber relies heavily on GPS, which would never work without Einstein&#8217;s general theory of relativity ! Einstein&#8217;s research didn&#8217;t lead to immediate innovations. But today, his work has a profound impact. This is a typical pattern. Would Einstein ever have imagined hailing an Uber ride\u00a0thanks to his theory of relativity ? Probably not..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[130],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1073\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}