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Official Lecture Slides V4 — CORRECTED
"From Clock Synchronization to Conventionalistic Gravitation" — Covering the interdisciplinary intersection of GNSS engineering and theoretical physics.
Updated March 27, 2026: Corrected mathematical typos on slides 9 and 12. This version replaces all previous versions.
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