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Stanford's Quantum Hologram Sets Storage Record
eldavojohn writes "It's often assumed that representing data reaches a limit when you get to the point that an atom represents one bit in some form or fashion. But Stanford University researchers have used a quantum hologram model to store the characters 'S' and 'U' by encoding the data at a rate of 35 bits per electron."
Sweet... now they're just a 'T' and 'F' away from writing something useful.
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Wow, the only thing more dense is Stanford's quantum hologram. A close second, as usual, is the first post, followed by the secretary at work.
And by letting S=0 and U=1 we can now represent a bit using 70 bits! Oh wai-
At least your device is also capable of holding the "B"
That's why you need redundancy. Do I hear 2 atoms?
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry.'" -Gary Larson
So, would that leave you with a Redundant Independant Array of Atoms (RIAA)? Perfect for storing my music.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
But that could get expensive fast. How much does each atom cost?
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
One thing most 'futurists' agree on is that the ultimate 'end game' of technology appears to be the conversion of all matter in the solar system into machine parts and computational elements. It's a logical end result of exponential growth. (and, actually, would be only the beginning : such a 'civilization' would eventually grow to convert the entire universe, but this would take much longer due to the snails pace of light)
What makes you think this hasn't already happened? Maybe we're part of a big computer thats trying to answer some kind of big question or something.
Actually, never mind. That seems infinitely improbable to me.
Maybe we're just somebody's porn collection.
This space available.
Well that's good. At least we will be the last thing to be deleted on the vast cosmic hard drive.
Life is not for the lazy.
My god! You're so right! We should like totally stop doing research because it's so hard and takes effort.
Well, it has never been successfully tested.
They should do it with positrons.
Are you sure?
I want the most bytes per MOLE next time I shop for a hard disk!
Radioactive storage anyone?
Then all your pr0n collection would decay after some time. Not a viable solution.
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when I was 10-11 my dad caught me looking at porn on our C64. The next day my mom made him pack the computer up for several years until we got a new PC.
Let's hope God doesn't have a mom.