{"id":253,"date":"2013-07-10T06:28:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T13:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=253"},"modified":"2013-07-10T06:28:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T13:28:14","slug":"welcome-to-the-fifth-dimension-where-data-is-stored-on-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the fifth dimension, where data is stored on crystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"harryhofman\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Welcome%20to%20the%20fifth%20dimension%2C%20where%20data%20is%20stored%20on%20crystals\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvice.com\/2013-7-9\/welcome-fifth-dimension-where-data-stored-crystals\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dvice.com\/2013-7-9\/welcome-fifth-dimension-where-data-stored-crystals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvice.com\/author\/colin-druce-mcfadden\">Colin Druce-McFadden<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Tuesday, July 9, 2013 &#8211; 5:54pm<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It sounds like a bunch of sci-fi hullabaloo, but data storage has just crossed into the fifth dimension. That&#8217;s right: the dimension sometimes referred to by physicists as the fabric of spacetime can now be harnessed to store you cat videos. And they&#8217;ve done it with frikkin&#8217; lasers and quartz.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, science just created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvice.com\/archives\/2007\/07\/fancy_polymer_makes_superhero.php\">Superman&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0data crystals and they&#8217;re gonna last forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bare minimum, these things will hold up for a million years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; a single crystal disc can store up to 360 terabytes of data. That&#8217;s a lot of cat videos.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/mediacentre\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"harryhofman\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Welcome%20to%20the%20fifth%20dimension%2C%20where%20data%20is%20stored%20on%20crystals\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>http:\/\/www.dvice.com\/2013-7-9\/welcome-fifth-dimension-where-data-stored-crystals \u00a0Colin Druce-McFadden Tuesday, July 9, 2013 &#8211; 5:54pm \u00a0 It sounds like a bunch of sci-fi hullabaloo, but data storage has just crossed into the fifth dimension. That&#8217;s right: the dimension sometimes referred to by physicists as the fabric of spacetime can now be harnessed to store you cat videos. And they&#8217;ve done it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computers","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}