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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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And by letting S=0 and U=1 we can now represent a bit using 70 bits! Oh wai-
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.
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.
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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