Comment on Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I doubt it’ll ever be used on commercial aircraft, since they do have GPS and all the other things there isn’t really any point adding a yet another system. Especially because it requires cooling, if it gets too warm it stops working, and buy too warm I mean the temperature of interplanetary space is too warm. Basically has to be absolute zero or bust.

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  • turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Who knows.

    Special relativity was a niche branch of interest until we needed to correct for time signal differences between moving satellites. Quantum mechanical understanding of electrons was a weird quirk of math until they used electron buckets to make SSDs.

    Publically funded general research leads to unexpected uses.

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