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25 Oct 2014, 9:19 am

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The quantum in my user name has to do with one of my special interests: quantum physics of subatomic particles. While I cannot say what I currently do research on, I can give you one of the projects that I worked on in grad school,(but not the one I graduated with). I was attempting to develop molecular switches as a means to store digital data on individual molecules. This was a step towards linking quantum computing (calculating using atoms) to its data storage capabilities. Think about taking a 1 terabyte drive times itself for the amount of increase potential. Unfortunately, the materials I was researching with would not separate the charges for a long enough time to make the switch "work" well enough. (IBM got one to work with 17 metal atoms last year and it was smaller than the ones I was originally researching on.) However, not every research failure is a complete failure, as it gave me information to develop a different type of data switch. The new idea I have is potentially much more powerful than even IBM's one. It has the added gift of being able to survive an EMP blast (either from man or nature), something that would wipe out all conventional data storage devices currently. That project is on a back-burner in my mind right now for a reason (no funding yet). But maybe someday...


I am also very interested in quantum physics and the potential of quantum computing, though I am sure you are far more knowledgeable about it than I. May I ask whether you believe that the properties of quantum entanglement might hypothetically be used to transfer complex information instantaneously? I'd also be interested to know why your new switch could survive an EMP... does it not use electrical current?


Yes, it is theoretically possible to shift digital data this way across the universe. But, there are some issues that need to be addressed first before we can ever actually use it. Among them is the problem that quantum coupling with matter can happen across vast distances without us actually knowing which particular piece of matter is coupled to which. We would have to find this experimentally, which will take a long time to do. To complicated it more, there exists the probability that matter may become coupled with anti-matter or dark matter also (both which we have a limited understanding about to begin with). This concept is complicated even more by the possibility that it could be shifted either up or down in dimensionality during the transfer process. (The data would be highly unlikely to be accessed by our dimensionality.) Since we do not know the end point (or maybe even end points over the vast space of the universe), we would have to be careful on what is ever sent this way.

As for my idea for the EMP proof data storage device, it does use electrical current to "write" the data, but not to "read" the data. That way, if all the electronics are destroyed during an EMP, the data can still be accessed. The electrical current alone will not create the data itself, it is a part of multiple things that work together to make the data unit form. It is a rewritable process under certain normal conditions. I wish I could say more about it....



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25 Oct 2014, 7:51 pm

QuantumChemist wrote:
MysterMe wrote:
QuantumChemist wrote:
The quantum in my user name has to do with one of my special interests: quantum physics of subatomic particles. While I cannot say what I currently do research on, I can give you one of the projects that I worked on in grad school,(but not the one I graduated with). I was attempting to develop molecular switches as a means to store digital data on individual molecules. This was a step towards linking quantum computing (calculating using atoms) to its data storage capabilities. Think about taking a 1 terabyte drive times itself for the amount of increase potential. Unfortunately, the materials I was researching with would not separate the charges for a long enough time to make the switch "work" well enough. (IBM got one to work with 17 metal atoms last year and it was smaller than the ones I was originally researching on.) However, not every research failure is a complete failure, as it gave me information to develop a different type of data switch. The new idea I have is potentially much more powerful than even IBM's one. It has the added gift of being able to survive an EMP blast (either from man or nature), something that would wipe out all conventional data storage devices currently. That project is on a back-burner in my mind right now for a reason (no funding yet). But maybe someday...


I am also very interested in quantum physics and the potential of quantum computing, though I am sure you are far more knowledgeable about it than I. May I ask whether you believe that the properties of quantum entanglement might hypothetically be used to transfer complex information instantaneously? I'd also be interested to know why your new switch could survive an EMP... does it not use electrical current?


Yes, it is theoretically possible to shift digital data this way across the universe. But, there are some issues that need to be addressed first before we can ever actually use it. Among them is the problem that quantum coupling with matter can happen across vast distances without us actually knowing which particular piece of matter is coupled to which. We would have to find this experimentally, which will take a long time to do. To complicated it more, there exists the probability that matter may become coupled with anti-matter or dark matter also (both which we have a limited understanding about to begin with). This concept is complicated even more by the possibility that it could be shifted either up or down in dimensionality during the transfer process. (The data would be highly unlikely to be accessed by our dimensionality.) Since we do not know the end point (or maybe even end points over the vast space of the universe), we would have to be careful on what is ever sent this way.

As for my idea for the EMP proof data storage device, it does use electrical current to "write" the data, but not to "read" the data. That way, if all the electronics are destroyed during an EMP, the data can still be accessed. The electrical current alone will not create the data itself, it is a part of multiple things that work together to make the data unit form. It is a rewritable process under certain normal conditions. I wish I could say more about it....


Fascinating... So you would have to somehow give the information signal a signature distinct from the "noise"? I imagine that the information would have to shift outside our space-time continuum in some way in order to transfer instantaneously to another location, but if I understand you correctly, the difficulty would be in translating it and bringing it back down into 3/4-D space-time without the signal being too distorted? I have no idea how to solve these problems, but it's interesting to ponder. Also, good sci-fi fodder ;-)

So the device must use solid-state memory of some sort? Anyway, I don't wish to pry. It does sound interesting and promising though, and I wish you the best of luck!


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26 Oct 2014, 5:10 pm

MysterMe wrote:
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MysterMe wrote:
QuantumChemist wrote:
The quantum in my user name has to do with one of my special interests: quantum physics of subatomic particles. While I cannot say what I currently do research on, I can give you one of the projects that I worked on in grad school,(but not the one I graduated with). I was attempting to develop molecular switches as a means to store digital data on individual molecules. This was a step towards linking quantum computing (calculating using atoms) to its data storage capabilities. Think about taking a 1 terabyte drive times itself for the amount of increase potential. Unfortunately, the materials I was researching with would not separate the charges for a long enough time to make the switch "work" well enough. (IBM got one to work with 17 metal atoms last year and it was smaller than the ones I was originally researching on.) However, not every research failure is a complete failure, as it gave me information to develop a different type of data switch. The new idea I have is potentially much more powerful than even IBM's one. It has the added gift of being able to survive an EMP blast (either from man or nature), something that would wipe out all conventional data storage devices currently. That project is on a back-burner in my mind right now for a reason (no funding yet). But maybe someday...


I am also very interested in quantum physics and the potential of quantum computing, though I am sure you are far more knowledgeable about it than I. May I ask whether you believe that the properties of quantum entanglement might hypothetically be used to transfer complex information instantaneously? I'd also be interested to know why your new switch could survive an EMP... does it not use electrical current?


Yes, it is theoretically possible to shift digital data this way across the universe. But, there are some issues that need to be addressed first before we can ever actually use it. Among them is the problem that quantum coupling with matter can happen across vast distances without us actually knowing which particular piece of matter is coupled to which. We would have to find this experimentally, which will take a long time to do. To complicated it more, there exists the probability that matter may become coupled with anti-matter or dark matter also (both which we have a limited understanding about to begin with). This concept is complicated even more by the possibility that it could be shifted either up or down in dimensionality during the transfer process. (The data would be highly unlikely to be accessed by our dimensionality.) Since we do not know the end point (or maybe even end points over the vast space of the universe), we would have to be careful on what is ever sent this way.

As for my idea for the EMP proof data storage device, it does use electrical current to "write" the data, but not to "read" the data. That way, if all the electronics are destroyed during an EMP, the data can still be accessed. The electrical current alone will not create the data itself, it is a part of multiple things that work together to make the data unit form. It is a rewritable process under certain normal conditions. I wish I could say more about it....


Fascinating... So you would have to somehow give the information signal a signature distinct from the "noise"? I imagine that the information would have to shift outside our space-time continuum in some way in order to transfer instantaneously to another location, but if I understand you correctly, the difficulty would be in translating it and bringing it back down into 3/4-D space-time without the signal being too distorted? I have no idea how to solve these problems, but it's interesting to ponder. Also, good sci-fi fodder ;-)

So the device must use solid-state memory of some sort? Anyway, I don't wish to pry. It does sound interesting and promising though, and I wish you the best of luck!


Yes. That is basically what I was referring to on the quantum coupling issues. In a nutshell, the signals would travel via tunneling effects to the corresponding particle and interact with it, regardless of distance apart. If you act on the target atom with a directional momentum, the corresponding particle will move in tandem to that action. The waveforms become quite complicated as you move up dimensions (outside of our space-time dimensionality) and reduce down as we constrict them to a lower dimension. How can we get this done on a workable scale is a good question that I have no answer for (as of yet). I will have to ponder on it a bit more......

As for the data storage device, it would potentially store data in more than just solid state (physical form) at any time. However, that is the fall-back-to state if the other forms fail to store the data as intended.