Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate
Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 5, 20186m 33s
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Show Notes
In 2015, the U.S. Naval Academy decided that its graduates needed to return to the past and learn how to navigate using the stars. Nine years prior, it had dropped celestial navigation from its requirements because GPS was so accurate and simple to use. But recent events had shaken the academy’s faith in GPS. Researchers had taken over a yacht’s navigation system as it steered in the Mediterranean.
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