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Magnetic Storage Using Quantum Vortex Cores

Posted by kdawson on from the next-little-thing dept.

brian0918 writes, "Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have discovered a new, easy way to manipulate the state of tiny magnetic structures, called vortex cores, quickly and without loss. From their press release: 'Up until now, very strong magnetic fields have been necessary to accomplish this, requiring highly complex technology. The new method might open up new possibilities for magnetic data storage. The directions of the small nanoscopic magnetic needles define a digital bit that is extremely stable in the face of frequently unavoidable external factors such as heat or interference from magnetic fields.'" You can read the first paragraph of the paper at Nature; subscribers can read it all.

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  1. Finally! by pdbaby · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, we're moving towards the star-trek age of technology. "Captain, the SAN is down" doesn't sound anywhere near as impressive as "Captain, the Quantum Vortex Core has crashed!"

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    1. Re:Finally! by alexhard · · Score: 5, Funny

      Finally, we're moving towards the star-trek age of technology. "Captain, the SAN is down" doesn't sound anywhere near as impressive as "Captain, the Quantum Vortex Core has crashed!"Quantum Vortex Cores don't just "crash" dude...the least we can expect is a mildly spectacular explosion!

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    2. Re:Finally! by powerlord · · Score: 4, Funny
      Finally, we're moving towards the star-trek age of technology. "Captain, the SAN is down" doesn't sound anywhere near as impressive as "Captain, the Quantum Vortex Core has crashed!"

      Quantum Vortex Cores don't just "crash" dude...the least we can expect is a mildly spectacular explosion!

      And they have to be "Jettison"-able.

      Engineer: "Sir! The Quantum Vortex Cores are becoming unstable! Explosion is imminent!"
      Manager: "Quick! Jettison the core into the Marketing department!"
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  2. Translation by gt_mattex · · Score: 5, Funny

    Magnetic Storage Using Magic

    There now everyone can understand.

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    1. Re:Translation by Warg!+The+Orcs!! · · Score: 5, Funny

      I asked a girl to show me her curved manifolds and got a slap! I daren't ask about her quantum vortex.

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  3. Really? by User+956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have discovered a new, easy way to manipulate the state of tiny magnetic structures, called vortex cores, quickly and without loss.

    I hear that all they had to do was reverse the tachyon flow through the heisenberg compensators.

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  4. No need! by ScentCone · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can read the first paragraph of the paper at Nature

    Nah. You had me at "quantum vortex cores."

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  5. let me guess by Kuciwalker · · Score: 5, Funny

    This article was accepted just because it lets kdawson put "Quantum Vortex Cores" on the front page.

  6. Get Perpendicular! by rackrent · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm totally down with it!

    Get Perpendicular!

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  7. Never thought I'd see this. by FedeLebron · · Score: 4, Funny

    So they finally did it. Quantum Buzzwords.

    May God help us all.

  8. Re:Why do i get the sinking feeling by multiplexo · · Score: 4, Funny

    that this either (or all) requires a tank of liquid helium, a roomful of sophisticated atomic scanning microscopes, or a highly radioactive source???

    Fuck! Are you kidding? I want all three, radioactive materials glowing Cerenkov blue in a tank of liquid helium and the atomic scanning microscopes. That would be way cooler to look at than my SAN RAIDs are, all I've got on those is a bunch of blinky LEDs, booooooooorring. Imagine how much cooler it would be to have to say "I have to replace the radioactive source in the quantum vortex core storage" instead of merely saying "Hmmmm, got a bad drive on the RAID".

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  9. Re:So what? by Plutonite · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the non engineers like me... what does this mean in practical usage?

    Ummm...PORN!

    Really, the questions people ask. Sheesh.

  10. Re:So what? by nomadic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who cares about how it works? Just listen to the name, man, Quantum Vortex Cores?? That's so freaking cool.