Comment on Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks agoI 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.
turmacar@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.