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This is the most obvious practical application of my PhD topic. A Bose Einstein Condensate is an extremely sensitive detector of gravity- a nuclear submarine could use it to make an ultra-accurate map of the world based on variations in the gravitational constant g. This would remove one of the primary reasons subs need to surface , in order to GPS lock.

It’s a naval chart that would not require surfacing.

A French postdoc in my lab swore this was the moneymaker for our entire subfield, and it seems he was on to something …

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