Crystals have always been of interest to me for some reason. I see them being something more than what the look to be, just decoration with strange electrical activity. So far we have not really found many uses for them besides using quartz crystals to keep time and make pretty light shows.
Now it appears that our science fiction stories may not be too far from the truth when they use crystals as storage devices. This article talks about our hopes for man made crystals that can hold 100 times what we can store now on magnetic media.
Makes you wonder when we will have so much storage that we really won’t be able to store any more. At this rate we will all have all the files on the internet in a crystal in the palm of our hand.
One thing I did find strange was the comment that ‘Many scientists regard making crystals as a black art, as the process of producing solid crystals from salt in solution is difficult to control.’ Personally I thought it was a process that was well defined and easily recreatable and much easier controlled than biological growth. It is even in kit form for kids and adults who are kids, err… adults teaching kids I mean). Maybe all crystals are not made equal.
Crystal storage
Crystals have always been of interest to me for some reason. I see them being something more than what the look to be, just decoration with strange electrical activity. So far we have not really found many uses for them besides using quartz crystals to keep time and make pretty light shows.
Now it appears that our science fiction stories may not be too far from the truth when they use crystals as storage devices. This article talks about our hopes for man made crystals that can hold 100 times what we can store now on magnetic media.
Makes you wonder when we will have so much storage that we really won’t be able to store any more. At this rate we will all have all the files on the internet in a crystal in the palm of our hand.
One thing I did find strange was the comment that ‘Many scientists regard making crystals as a black art, as the process of producing solid crystals from salt in solution is difficult to control.’ Personally I thought it was a process that was well defined and easily recreatable and much easier controlled than biological growth. It is even in kit form for kids and adults who are kids, err… adults teaching kids I mean). Maybe all crystals are not made equal.