Re: [Vo]:IBM Stop Motion Film of Cu Atoms

2013-05-02 Thread Peter Gluck
It was well known that the surface atoms of metals e.g. in catalysts are very mobile, and this has scientific and technological importance- see e.g. my Surfdyn psper (Fusion Technology 24 AUG 1993, 122-6) re CF. Peter On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:18 AM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [Vo]:IBM Stop Motion Film of Cu Atoms

2013-05-02 Thread Jed Rothwell
Come to think of it, this means that in principle IBM could store data at one bit per atom starting now. Perhaps the biggest difficulty would be finding the data again. I guess this is the lower limit to data storage. I doubt that subatomic storage will ever be possible. Probably, archival

Re: [Vo]:IBM Stop Motion Film of Cu Atoms

2013-05-02 Thread David Roberson
have this luxury. Dave -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, May 2, 2013 10:51 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:IBM Stop Motion Film of Cu Atoms Come to think of it, this means that in principle IBM could store data at one bit per

RE: [Vo]:IBM Stop Motion Film of Cu Atoms

2013-05-02 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
units and max is 7 units, and CDs use RLL 8,14.) From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 7:51 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:IBM Stop Motion Film of Cu Atoms Come to think of it, this means that in principle IBM could store data at one

Re: [Vo]:IBM Stop Motion Film of Cu Atoms

2013-05-02 Thread Jed Rothwell
Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. hoyt-stea...@cox.net wrote: Current digital storage systems use Run length limited (RLL) codes where it's the distance between bits that contain the information. ** ** Theoretically you only need two samples to get lots of bits - if you can measure the distance to

[Vo]:IBM Stop Motion Film of Cu Atoms

2013-05-01 Thread Ron Wormus
Pretty Cool. http://io9.com/this-is-officially-the-worlds-tiniest-stop-motion-film-486198380?autoplay=1

Re: [Vo]:IBM Stop Motion Film of Cu Atoms

2013-05-01 Thread Ruby
It's blowing my mind to think how tiny this actually is. Anybody who thinks there is a difference between art and science doesn't know a damn thing about either. Sci-artists unite! On 5/1/13 11:42 AM, Ron Wormus wrote: Pretty Cool.

Re: [Vo]:IBM Stop Motion Film of Cu Atoms

2013-05-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Ron Wormus prot...@frii.com wrote: Pretty Cool. http://io9.com/this-is-**officially-the-worlds-tiniest-** stop-motion-film-486198380?**autoplay=1http://io9.com/this-is-officially-the-worlds-tiniest-stop-motion-film-486198380?autoplay=1 That's entertaining.