Can We Store Information In Water - Someday We May -By Lance Winslow

The other day, I was discussing an interesting topic with a fellow intellectual, namely the future potential eventuality of storing information in water. He was of course skeptical and I guess I am also, but a as he worked to immediate attack the idea, I decided to choose the antithesis and go with it. Our science and ability to manipulate molecules and matter itself will only improve with modern science. So, today, it might seem like magic to a good many people, but isn't that the way of such breakthrough technology? Let's talk.

My premise is that yes, one day, perhaps within a decade or less we can invent very simple ways, inexpensive and efficient ways to store information, lots of it, in something as simple as a cup full of water. My acquaintance couldn't resist in starting our debate with a back-handed compliment, an intellectual jab if you will on my personal character. He said;

"You know, I think you are creative. But are you sure you know what you are saying? Water shifts atomic position when it freezes. On your page it said you read QED. Was that the one authored by Richard P Feynman? Because guessing at free particles and storing data in an organized way are two very different goals."

I protested this diversion from the topic and ignored the back-handed compliment and challenged his knowledge on quantum mechanics and explain one potential way it might be possible. For instance; if you are controlling the spin of the electrons, you can control the temperature as you work, I don't find this to be a major hurdle, you have to freeze the water anyway, do it in layers, slices and encode as you do. Allow the water to flow from sandwich sheets onto the previously frozen last layer.

We can see this in ice core samples and they have stored information of all kinds, clues, history, I am merely suggesting we take it to another level, atomic level. Water can be controlled in many ways. We can align molecules with energy, save that alignment, someday perhaps play with individual molecules and the atoms of those molecules and their electrons. Once you can do that, you sure have some nice potential.

How about another scheme - use carbon nano-tubes and fill them with copper atoms, then remove the charge as you code the electrons?

Lastly, I explained to my acquaintance that his Feyman comment was actually apropos to this topic as well, here is how; Feyman had some interesting ideas on such potentials, but many have suggested the potential for storing data in water, I believe Sagan had discussed this too. In Japan, they've done quite a lot of research on all this, and noted snowflake patterns, PH, dissolved solids in water and all sorts of things. IBM has done some interesting research on all this. I think "water" will someday be used to store data, but along the way, we might discover even batter molecules to use. Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net

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