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My phone's GPS only works because that mapping keeps being better than anything else we've tested on that scale.

The atomic clocks (as I mentioned in another comment) demonstrating gravitational time dilation within a building is another fun example.



Your phone works because engineers did it.

I see strong annual signal in GPS: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10291-017-0686-6 .

Why it there?


> Your phone works because engineers did it.

The engineers implemented results from GR.

> Why it there?

Not that it matters, but the answer is in the introduction.




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