This device could usher in GPS-free navigation

[Charlemagne]

This device could usher in GPS-free navigation

Don't let the titanium metal walls or the sapphire windows fool you. It's what's on the inside of this small, curious device that could someday kick off a new era of navigation.

phys.org

 

[Goodoer]

I did amazingly well in school and yet, over and over again, I am given examples that I was not that intelligent. Smart, but not world-changing brilliant.

 

[HungSowel]

I think this is equivalent to a high-tech gyroscope. The problem with using gyros is that they accumulate errors over time but if the quantum stuff is able to keep the errors very low then it might be all gravy.

 

[y2kmark]

I have numerous GPS free navigation tools. For you millennials out there, they're called maps...

 

[corrie fan]

Looks a lot like the navigation system the guys on The Big Bang Theory were working on for the military.

 

[JohnHenry]

Some of my close relatives worked on this at Litton Systems in Rexdale.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...aObqLcbdTsc-1635861328-0-gqNtZGzNAjujcnBszQdl

 

[Boss Nass]

I think this is equivalent to a high-tech gyroscope. The problem with using gyros is that they accumulate errors over time but if the quantum stuff is able to keep the errors very low then it might be all gravy.

Correct. That's how the Inertial Navigation System works. Robert Goddard was experimenting with gyro stabilisation 90 years ago, and Von Bruan refined it for the V2.