‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

I think the problem is of keeping the rubidium atoms at near zero. I wonder what the future will look like once they can shrink it down to the size of a handheld device.

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