{"id":144896,"date":"2026-01-26T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144896"},"modified":"2026-01-26T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:00:13","slug":"flying-blind-at-mach-1-how-china-is-bringing-worlds-first-supersonic-rail-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144896","title":{"rendered":"Flying blind at Mach 1: how China is bringing world\u2019s first supersonic rail to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA rail system that accelerates heavy objects faster than the speed of sound using pure electromagnetic force has been operating in the eastern Chinese city of Jinan for more than two years.<br \/>\nBut one of the biggest mysteries remains: how does it stay in control?<br \/>\nThe sonic boom the system generates at ground level could blind or wreck traditional sensors, while the slightest miscalculation due to missing data could mean disaster at supersonic speeds.<br \/>\nThe system, known as the electromagnetic sledge,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3340516\/flying-blind-mach-1-how-china-bringing-worlds-first-supersonic-rail-life?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA rail system that accelerates heavy objects faster than the speed of sound using pure electromagnetic force has been operating in the eastern Chinese&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}