ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Quantum gyroscope

Imagine you have a magical ball that can help you know in which direction you are moving, even if you can't see or feel it. This is called a gyroscope.

Now, let's talk about a special type of gyroscope, called a quantum gyroscope. It's like a magic ball that uses weird and wonderful rules of quantum physics to keep track of how it's rotating or changing direction.

One of the important things that this magic ball does is called "quantum entanglement". This means that two tiny particles can become linked together in a way that what happens to one particle, directly affects the other. This is just like two friends holding hands and always feeling each other's movements.

The quantum gyroscope uses these linked particles, which are called "quantum states", to keep track of how it's moving. It's kind of like a "quantum dance" between these particles, where the gyroscope can measure their movements to understand its own movements.

So basically, a quantum gyroscope is a magical ball that uses the rules of quantum physics to help us measure how we are moving or changing direction. It's a special type of gyroscope that can do things that regular gyroscopes cannot.