peter.komarkowski wrote:
> "Scientists are reporting successful tests of a new memory device that could
> allow terabytes of data to be stored without corruption for millions of
> years.
>
> The device is an iron nanoparticle, 1/50,000 the width of a human hair,
> enclosed in a hollow carbon nanotube. 
>
> The iron can be shuttled back and forth within the tube as an effective way
> to store data.
>
>   
yeah- and what prevents physical disturbance from moving the nanoparticle?
and what will they use to shuttle it that can be focused so closely as 
to not disturb the ones next to it?
-and read the positions of all these?

color me skeptical!

regards
Jay


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