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1.2 petabytes of storagep2p news / p2pnet: Can you imagine world without data compression? And where you never have to back anything up?
US inventor Michael Thomas, owner of Colossal Storage, hopes to achieve exactly that. He says he's the first person to solve non-contact optical spintronics which will in turn utlimately result in the creation of 3.5-inch discs with a million times the capacity of any hard drive - 1.2 petabytes of storage, to be exact.
To put that into perspective, mega is 1,024 times kilo, giga is 1,024 times mega, tera is 1,024 times giga and peta is 1,024 times tera.
Back in May, 2004, we wrote, "Electrons' electro magnetic properties cause an interesting effect that you depend on. Absolutely. It's called electricity and electric current is measured by the abundance, or lack, of electrons in the ferroelectric nucleus, better known as voltage or static charge. Ferroelectric spintronics is, in turn, the method by which electric fields and photons change the properties of ferroelectric molecules."
In the past, data storage has only been able to orient the direction a field of electrons as they move around a molecule, Thomas told p2pnet. "But now there's a way to rotate or spin the individual electrons that make up, or surround, the molecule," he says.
"Normally all the electrons could spin randomly working against the best electrical signal. The electrons are also capable of spinning in both directions a once. But my unique method for creating uniform in-sync spinning electrons will for the first time allow a whole new field of science and electronics to emerge.
"With the ability to control electron spin we will see much smaller electronic devices on the market."
An analogy would be our solar system with all the planets circling the Sun in a clockwise direction. Spintronics would add spin to the planets and their moons in a determined direction as they rotated around the sun.
"One field under study is optical spintronics following Faradays laws," Thomas continues. "The potential data capacity is enormous, and there'd be a very high data transfer rate. Consequently, there'd be no need for expensive compression software like MPEG and others, and no need to backup data."
The goal of spintronics is to generate a perfect spin current using an electric field and UV photons in a high-k dipole dielectric material like a ferroelectric molecule, says Thomas, going on:
"It was important for the material to be a bianry dipole that could then be made reversible, have non-dissipative of power, and not suffer from leakage current lost over time."
What would this mean to you? It would allow the manufacture of double sided disks made by separating the ferroelectric molecular coating layers by a plastic, metal, glass, or ceramic substrate.
And how would this allow you to store immense amounts of data on the discs?
"I'm convinced intraband / outerband resonant absorption by circularly polarized UV photons leads to spin polarization of electrons and, that it's possible to create an 'Atomic Quantum Switch' which carries an electro-static field, electro-magnetic field, and spin orientation," he said.
"And that can be made to represent non-volatile 0's and 1's."
Thomas' agent in Japan is in talks with "several big name companies," he states, saying he expects it'll be two to three years before prototypes will be built.
"I'd say we can expect a finished product to be on the market in about four to five years," he says, adding the cost would probably be in the range of $750 each.
Thomas is a 30-year pioneer whose projects include a computer with a 3D display, instant response, able to run every available OS and application simultaneously, virtually no power consumption or moving parts and complete security - and whose physical component is about the size of a pack of playing cards.
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Thomas is a 30-year pioneer whose projects include a computer with a 3D display, instant response, able to run every available OS and application simultaneously, virtually no power consumption or moving parts and complete security - and whose physical component is about the size of a pack of playing cards.
"I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."
-- George Herbert Walker Bush
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Yeah, Bob, just throw that on my peta-drive with the other peta-files!
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Quoth Pvednes:
Two to the fiddy?
Everyone would buy a "Two-fiddy" drive!
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
fake edit: which is why before now we've been working with electron 'clouds'
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Everyone wondered WTF when Niklas wrote:
I thought manipulating single electrons (in a way to make them usable to read from) is still a fantasy? Quantum effects and so forth mean we never know where an electron actually is. I might be misunderstanding here but wouldn't that make it kinda hard to read?fake edit: which is why before now we've been working with electron 'clouds'
That's Heisenberg's uncertaintly principle, which says you can't simultaneously know an electron's exact position and its momentum...the closer you get to the exact measurement of one, the less accurate your ability to tell the other is.
