Time passes more slowly by a factor of at plane cruising altitude of above the earth's surface, compared to the time experienced by an object at infinity. At approximately how many places after the decimal point does differ from
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The factor that time runs slower compared to infinity is:
1 − r c 2 2 G M .
Plugging in all of the numbers above, one finds 0 . 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 3 , which differs from 1 at the 10th place after the decimal point.