5-D Data Storage for 13.8 Billion Years?

“We can guarantee that we have the ability to store the culture,
language and essence of the human race in a simple piece of glass
for future civilizations — or what ever else is Out There.”

- Aabid Patel, Ph.D., Optical Physicist, U. K.'s Univ. of Southampton

This one-inch 5-dimensional data storage glass disc contains the King James Bible. A 5D glass disc the size of a 128-gigabyte Blu-ray can store 360 terabytes of information. So the 5D glass disc could store 3,000 times more than the Blu-ray disc. Image by U. K.'s University of Southampton.

February 19, 2016 San Francisco, California - A surprising headline appeared in technology news February 16th proclaiming “Five-dimensional” glass discs can store data for up to 13.8 billion years.” That’s the age of this universe! The news came this week from the 2016 Int'l. Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) conference in San Francisco where scientists from the U. K.’s University of Southampton reported: “We can guarantee that we have the ability to store the culture, language and essence of the human race in a simple piece of glass for future civilizations — or what ever else is out there.”

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