Wrong Prediction of Special Relativity on GPS Sagnac Correction

The application of special relativity theory, Lorentz transformation equations, length contraction and time dilation concepts to such problems as the Sagnac effect, the GPS Sagnac correction and moving observer experiments has been a source of endless debates that have never been settled to this date. There are still confusions regarding, for example, the application of special relativity theory to non-relativistic problems. It is usually claimed that special relativity gives the same answer as classical physics for non-relativistic problems. In a previous paper, “ A Simple Challenge to Relativity “, I proposed an apparently simple problem that has not been treated in many cases so far strictly according to Lorentz transformation equations. In this paper, a new analysis of moving observer experiments by applying Lorentz transformation equations is proposed. It is found that special relativity (wrongly) predicts half of the value used for GPS Sagnac correction.