14 DAY TRIAL // Crystals have been used, in fiction, as a means to store information, channel energy, produce holographic projections and a bunch of other things.
Now, scientists have proven that those things are actually totally possible.
In fact, they aren't just possible, they are outright desirable.
After all, there is no reason that people could possibly be against owning a compact disc with 360 TB of storage space.
Well, the price may be a deterrent, but that's a problem that time seldom fails to alleviate.
Jingyu Zhang, a UK professor at the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre, is the one that introduced the “Superman crystal” disc. Really, it's actually glass, but then glass is just artificial crystal, so it's the same thing.
Clearly, the Superman crystal disc is ages beyond the 128 GB quad-layer blue-ray discs of today.
And as if capacity wasn't enough, the new discs can even survive intense temperatures (1000 °C).
The data is stored in nanostructural glass (trillions of tiny fused quartz crystals).