It's not meant to be used to write things very tinily. It's just one step closer to smaller encryption. The very computer you're typing this on is possible because adventurous scientists like these try new things.
it's an experiment to show you can engrave stuff on the subatomic level ... they just did a succesful experiment and promoted their university at the same time ... what's wastefull about that !!!??
What if they had said that all those years ago when the telephone had been invented, or when cars or aeroplanes or computers had been invented? Our world is nowhere without these technological pioneers. If you really care so much, why are you wasting your time watching a video you clearly don't care about, just to slag it off and ask the near impossible?? Oh, and these are PHYSICISTS. they don't do diseases....
@Keyes101react and everyone else calling this a waste of time
Once again youtube commenters completely fail to grasp the possibilities of what this means, even though he states it very clearly at the end of the clip. I thought I didn't have any more faith in humanity to lose but you just went full retard and proved me wrong.
Now you have to realize micro writing have been used by governments to transmit secret codes and messages through out history. This can be useful to transmit messages this way. Also pictures them selves probably can be made and transmitted in atomic sized pictures.
Why aren't you working on a cure for cancer right now? Because you fucking can't. These people are making advancements in scientific fields which will be utilised by companies, in order to create more advanced technology for the world to use.
You're asking for everyone to stop advancing society, to cure, what is basically an incurable disease. You're eager to unload the responsibility of curing cancer, onto the shoulders of others, whilst you go about your life not giving a two shits,
@liptonBlueBirdAdd wasn't trolling i legitimately thought it was fucking retarded.. if i was trolling (which i don't do) it would sound like this " i agree this is a waste of money, they could've just used the money to send the niggers back to africa"
@dm2000ny So you honestly think that encoding information at the subatomic scale is a waste of money? What possible use can our civilization have for storing more data in a smaller space?
@liptonBlueBirdAdd No, i'm not saying that there is no use. But there are countless problems in the world that we could focus on before we try to make new atomic encoding. I certainly love all of the advances in technology but i would willingly trade every electronic i've ever owned if they could fix the war in the middle east or the hunger and AIDS in Africa and so many other things. Stop trying to argue for the sake of arguing, this is dumb, you're never gonna think i'm right.
@dm2000ny Who wouldn't trade material positions for peace and health for all humans, troll? But some people have a mind for physics and some have a mind for bringing peace. I wouldn't send Einstein to resolve social issues in foreign countries. Your argument makes no sense. So nuclear scientists should just sit around and wait for humanity to reach harmony?
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, smart people gotta write small, and you gotta troll. Deal with it!
Paving the way for microchips the size of a grain of rice holding over a Terabyte of data.... Well I doubt that's possible, maybe the size of a quarter, but not for another 100+ years.
AMAZING with this find we may have more disk space and faster internet everything would be faster if we could transfer files that are really small yet hold alot of information i can see alot of company's people benifiting from this in the future
Yeah, this is incredible, but why start pumping such money into programs at the current economical state? Maybe they could have started on this a bit later, if the economy were to go back to normal.
I don't think you see the broader point. Hard drives are constantly getting bigger and larger storage mediums are needed for information... with the advent of Blu-ray... but you can't always just increase the media capacity of what you're writing to... we have to find a way to store information in ways that don't always require a larger storage medium. I think there was some Indian scientist who created a single disc layered out of some sort of enzyme that can hold thousands of gigabytes.
@chainlinkdreams oh calm down at least "your tax dollars are going towards something even though this is not that important it is however creating posibilities that where thought to be imposible before and i really hate ppl that say "glad to see my tax dollars hard at work" i hate it because if it was YOUR own tax dollard that wouldnt be much as well as money doesnt work. and if you pay someone money it is no longer yours thats
The true significance of the work lies in storing more information in less space. "How densely can you encode information on a computer chip? The assumption has been that it's impossible to scale down below the level of atoms.
But they were able to write letters subatomic in size. This isn't a waste of money, think about how advanced our technology could be, being able to store that much more information on these little things, that would be useful to us.
umm... the ultimate goal of this experiment was to prove that it is possible to study matter at a sub-atomic level. (which by the way means smaller than atoms... just in case your narrow mind didn't catch that.)
To everyone saying this is useless technology, please continue using the same computer you are in about 15-20 years. Yeah I know you won't be, but you can thank these guys for the technology of your hard drives in about 10-20 years depending on how fast they push the technology (and standards).
To everyone saying this demonstrates a useless technology: The idea behind this demonstration is that we can now record data on a sub-atomic level. This means we can make higher-capacity hard drives that take up less space in a computer. Hence, computers will get smaller and use less energy, becoming more portable, more environmentally friendly, and, eventually, less expensive.
this is seriously a WASTE of people's time, and money. Like wow, the smallest writing ever??? someone needs to get a life if that is what they think of in their free time.
I hope that's sarcasm. This is awesome, much more money should be pushed into projects like this. This may not help right now, but this and similar research will lay the technological groundwork for our work in 15 or 20 years, and the more we invest now, the more we will get later, and also the FASTER.
the real point, if i understand it, [correct me] is the potential ability to encode information at a SUB-ATOMIC level - that's Big News 1. Big News 2 is the potential in LAYERING that encoding - adding an unknown multiple of capacity for exactly the same space, by doing nothing more reading the interference pattern produced by the process at different levels - how i don't know: but sounds significant to me. sci guys, stop calling names. explain.
People don't get what the point is even though life today is better cause of many other things they wont have got the point of either. Maybe they should, but they don't. That's humanity.
Physicists; get off your high horse. You know how the world works - or you SHOULD: people & technology, most don't know or care less how or why it works. They really, really should, but they dont. maybe they cant. Get over it, as you wont enlighten society on youtube.
Wow, comments thread is full of retards who can't understand the ancillary implications of exemplary projects. If you are Ｓｔｕｐｉｄ enough to write a comment like "OMGWTFBBQ WHYD ON'T THEY CURE CANCER INSTEAD OF WRITING LITTLE LETTERS? then you are embarrassing yourself. You are an ignorant moron if you cannot immediately grasp the overwhelmingly exciting implications of this example.
shut the fuck up people! we are all going to die anyways so fuck these cure and shit, and it's just money go out and live in the woods or desert and find you own old life way to live god fuck! do something smart people than ranting about this amazing bullshit
@halo3e2w1q woooww do some research....scientist are still trying to find cures for cancer, and there closer then you think.. These people you see here are completely different kind of scientist. Stop bagging on them, and with this project they have done can lead to many other great discoveries.
To everyone who say's what a waste of money, well it is these types of "wastes" that are letting you use a computer, with internet, to type you utter nonesense.
@yumyumwhatzohai its a waste of money, concerning the idea that we are able to store information well as it is. This "experiment" they have done though will eventually prove necessary... just not as necessary in today's world. I'll give it about 5 years until this experiment will become a commonly bought product, considering how the world is advancing so rapidly in technology.
lets put it this way. they use their money on science. But you spend your money on beer and cigarettes. same thing it makes them happy to make new discoveries and you like to get hammered.
First of all, this experiment was probably not paid for with taxpayer money.
Second, this was not a useless publicity stunt. Did you hear the part at the end? This could make for cheaper, far higher density storage in the future.
wow, there are a lot of ignorant people who think this research is a waste of time and money and don't understand all the applications that this can be used for.
the IBM image "written with individual atoms" is not true, because the surface you see behind the "atoms" consists of nickel. That entire plate consists of literally billions of atoms, and Xeon atoms must just be the atoms to cause those dents in the nickel, not the atoms themselves. It is, and always will remain impossible to see atoms with visible light or even X rays, as the wavelengths are simply much too large to reflect off a single atom. Other waves can reveal their detail though.
who ever taught you partical physis must of been retarded as by simply googling "how to see atoms" you come up with
"Images of atoms have been obtained indirectly using various types of microscopes which do not use light, such as the electron microscope and the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The images are false in that the shading and colors are added by computer. Still, they give us a map showing size and location of atoms and allow us to visualize them"
omfg lol, I know. What I was implying was the IBM logo specifically; just take one look at the IBM logo and think for a few seconds. If those dots were the size of atoms, wouldn't the surface they were on also be a whole bunch of dots which are, sure enough, the size of atoms? Well for some conveniently unexplained reason, it's a smooth, continuous surface, suggesting it's made of billions of atoms.
well it is a representation, but the fact of the matter is, the nickel surface it was placed on would show up in scans as well, since it's on the atomic level, right? so why don't they?
Of course I could be completely wrong, there could be some science that I don't know going on behind that picture, like the ability to screen out all the atoms past a certain point (ie: the nickel surface behind the IBM atoms)
I'm thinking the kind of light they used would not be reflected by nickel atoms. That's why the nickel surface is seen as smooth while the letters seem to protrude from it.
OR, a more probable idea: the element "IBM" is written in has a much larger atomic size than nickel. Thus we would be able to see the "IBM" with the nickel background appearing as a smooth surface.
Let me know what you think. =)
Anyway this is simply amazing. Imagine all the applications this research could be used for!!
When I was doubting IBM's validity about that whole thing I was thinking of those points that you made there... I didn't really consider it a possibility too much then but for some reason hearing someone else say it as well kinda makes me think that's just how they did it. I also didn't think it was really fake, but I was more asking as to how they'd do such a thing.
well, if it is real (which I don't think they'd fake something like this), one of those theories must be right :P
To all the brainless twits above who don't see the point of science. Without science, you wouldn't be online spewing your ignorance. You wouldn't own a computer. Fact is, you'd live in a cave and eat raw meat and roll around in your own shit!
according to one of my professors atoms don't exist because nobody has ever seen an atom, its just a theory that works really well. i should show him this.
theonthepsi; in it's normal state, carbon monoxide is a gas, however it can be converted into a solid, like how dihydrogen monoxide (water) can be solid, liquid or gas.
@IceSkater926 I don't think the whole point is to read it, the point is that they were able to scale down the writing into a subatomic level, think about how much information we can put into electronics, think about how advanced our technology would be. We would be able to put that much more information into something small. For example, that piece of copper.
They do it by WRITING SMALL! The smaller we can contain information, the more we can pack into electronics. If you can build something extremely small, it can DELIVER things. You know, like anticancer drugs directly into a tumor.
The science is nanotechnology, and it could make almost everything better from electronics to baseball bats. That's why writing small is a big deal.
akmishu: that's totally wrong, on an iPod, they do it by using a flash drive which stores information on a flash disk, like a USB key, and in a laptop, they use a hard drive, and in both of these processes, they don't actually "write" anything except 1 's and 0's
Wanna try that again? All magnetic media writes 1's and 0's, including flash drives. Doesnt matter if you're considering tape drives, disk drives, flash drives, whatever - there is a write application at some point. And, of course, there's a read application as well. That's how your music is ripped, stored, and played back.
Trivia: did you realize that flash drives have a finite life in writing? (But not READING!) You might want to look that one up.
Imagine... this is still considering the rules of binary information apply. Wait until we get into fuzzy logic driven quantum computer hardware!! :drools:
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dont say what am i doing going onto this vidoe if im going to slag it off but i thought it was going to interesting but it was a pile of shite!!!!! what kinde of use would it be to anyone, making letters out of electons and molecules and such..... its juat unbieliveably bent in so many ways!!!!! how in the name of god is this good??? :S whos gonna use it ..... NO BODY!!!!!!!
If you don't understand the significance of being able to write and read features at a subatomic level then you don't understand what was driving quantum computing.
For the last few years we have been putting more and more data on smaller amounts of physical medium encroaching on the one bit per atom limit and we have been looking for a way to break through that limit. With technology such as this we could get multiple bits of data represented by an atom.
A massive prank will be pulled on "comedian" Fred on youtube.
What is trying to be done is get everyone that has a subscription to fred, to unsubscribe. If this is succsesful, then it will make the news, cause controversy,
using this you can get computers in a couple of years to have the same capacity in one chip as a computer from five years ago would have in ites entire storage. It would go towards achieving something like that
Its not stupid nor is a it a pointless comment you idiot! Tell me! What is the point of this? What is it accomplishing?! How is it helping the world, and helping to save people?! Think about you read before you reply stupid comment. There wasn't a single thing stupid about my comment. Ignorant.
there was only 1 single stupid thing about your comment, and that was your comment in general. There's alot of things they can do with this, including making even smaller microchips that they can put information on, in order to put them into whatever they need. And reading your profile page, you obviously waste alot of your time going on videos talking about how stupid things are. Get over yourself, you aren't important either.
Okay well I didn't think about that! All you had to do was say that in the first place instead of insulting me!!!!!! I mean you could have taught me something, and yea what else is a teenager supposed to do?! I like to watch videos, its youtube!
How can this be applicated into real life.
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Smaller than Atoms? Man, that thing is DOPE!
grunder20 1 month ago
now erase it
MrPhantoful 1 month ago
unstoppable research! Unstoppable discovery!
happinesson 2 months ago
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nice one!
adelle0001 2 months ago
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This made me laugh! Great writing!
grunder20 2 months ago
im sorry, i dont mean to hate, but this is a waste of time. why would u want to have words smaller...
holdmyhandxd 4 months ago
@holdmyhandxd
It's not meant to be used to write things very tinily. It's just one step closer to smaller encryption. The very computer you're typing this on is possible because adventurous scientists like these try new things.
phahq 4 months ago
Does it come in wingdings?
SinisterSmile3 5 months ago
Lastly, for everyone who thinks they should "cure cancer instead"
Well, for one, as other people have already said, these are chemists/physicists, not doctors...
and secondly, it's advancements in technology like this that make the research that doctors do for cancer possible...
How come you people can't realise something great when you see it?
PattyManatty 6 months ago
what the fuck is the point?
Robin8707 6 months ago
@Robin8707 you ignorant sap.
If you don't understand something, politely ask for it's significance.
You have made yourself look unworthy to watch any video about science.
The point is that you can store information subatomically.
a can of coke, which is of similar size to a harddrive, has approximately 3*10^25 atoms, that means
30 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 if each atom were 1 bit, that would be about 3 410 605 131 648 terabytes.
now imagine it sub atomically.
Now do you get the point
PattyManatty 6 months ago
it's an experiment to show you can engrave stuff on the subatomic level ... they just did a succesful experiment and promoted their university at the same time ... what's wastefull about that !!!??
Borat911 8 months ago
And they were never laid again.
qwerpoiuROX 9 months ago
Wow, amazing. This will be popular in the near future. I'm sure it's going to be used to store data and whatnot. :D
narulov57 9 months ago
i would have been more impressed if they had written it in jokerman
chrisymurphy 10 months ago
Thats just useless and a waste of time and money
BluredShadow 10 months ago
whats the point when you're gonna read it you're just going to magnify it again
jibabib 11 months ago
With all the possible data they can fit in a very small space , it makes you wonder how much damage a small scratch could do to that data :(
InvisiMan2006 11 months ago
@biadezZ
What if they had said that all those years ago when the telephone had been invented, or when cars or aeroplanes or computers had been invented? Our world is nowhere without these technological pioneers. If you really care so much, why are you wasting your time watching a video you clearly don't care about, just to slag it off and ask the near impossible?? Oh, and these are PHYSICISTS. they don't do diseases....
chokkathunda94 1 year ago
@Keyes101react and everyone else calling this a waste of time
Once again youtube commenters completely fail to grasp the possibilities of what this means, even though he states it very clearly at the end of the clip. I thought I didn't have any more faith in humanity to lose but you just went full retard and proved me wrong.
TheShattubatu 1 year ago
Now you have to realize micro writing have been used by governments to transmit secret codes and messages through out history. This can be useful to transmit messages this way. Also pictures them selves probably can be made and transmitted in atomic sized pictures.
davidthefat 1 year ago
What's next? Writing your name using Planck size strings?
holypupppet 1 year ago
Very cool!
hannahISthepanic 1 year ago
Shut up Stanford! Harvard is still better
blankblankblankify 1 year ago
It's funny cuz the guy looks all happy that he can write very small :P fkin retard get a life, get laid or smthin more human like
Keyes101react 1 year ago
seriously.. WHO GIVES A FUCK.
waste your time doing this, when you could be working on a cancer cure.. cheers cunts.
BiadezZ 1 year ago
@BiadezZ
Why aren't you working on a cure for cancer right now? Because you fucking can't. These people are making advancements in scientific fields which will be utilised by companies, in order to create more advanced technology for the world to use.
You're asking for everyone to stop advancing society, to cure, what is basically an incurable disease. You're eager to unload the responsibility of curing cancer, onto the shoulders of others, whilst you go about your life not giving a two shits,
rich8642 1 year ago 2
Epic
KingOSketchKomedy 1 year ago
Gay
thecartel360 1 year ago
This could revolutionize computer processors...
MilleniumAtheist 1 year ago
Yawn.
Rachael1042 1 year ago
@B34U5000 Fun, ain't it! :D
liptonBlueBirdAdd 1 year ago
next thing ya know, we'll have games twice as detailed and ineractive as xbox360 and ps3 games on our cell phones
jetlag51 1 year ago
this is the dumbest fucking waste of time and money i've ever heard.. wtf everyone should just boycott stanford university after this shit
dm2000ny 1 year ago
@dm2000ny You are a terrible troll.
liptonBlueBirdAdd 1 year ago
@liptonBlueBirdAdd wasn't trolling i legitimately thought it was fucking retarded.. if i was trolling (which i don't do) it would sound like this " i agree this is a waste of money, they could've just used the money to send the niggers back to africa"
dm2000ny 1 year ago
@dm2000ny So you honestly think that encoding information at the subatomic scale is a waste of money? What possible use can our civilization have for storing more data in a smaller space?
Troll harder next time.
liptonBlueBirdAdd 1 year ago
@liptonBlueBirdAdd No, i'm not saying that there is no use. But there are countless problems in the world that we could focus on before we try to make new atomic encoding. I certainly love all of the advances in technology but i would willingly trade every electronic i've ever owned if they could fix the war in the middle east or the hunger and AIDS in Africa and so many other things. Stop trying to argue for the sake of arguing, this is dumb, you're never gonna think i'm right.
dm2000ny 1 year ago
@dm2000ny Who wouldn't trade material positions for peace and health for all humans, troll? But some people have a mind for physics and some have a mind for bringing peace. I wouldn't send Einstein to resolve social issues in foreign countries. Your argument makes no sense. So nuclear scientists should just sit around and wait for humanity to reach harmony?
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, smart people gotta write small, and you gotta troll. Deal with it!
liptonBlueBirdAdd 1 year ago
@liptonBlueBirdAdd ..
dm2000ny 1 year ago
Wow what a weird thing to research
BOxX4SsuB 1 year ago
a big leap for thumb drives!!!!
Srisuwat 1 year ago
Brilliant! I am simply bursting at the seams with nerdy glee!
Bandaids4ever 1 year ago
AWESOME!
SuperAppletart 1 year ago
Paving the way for microchips the size of a grain of rice holding over a Terabyte of data.... Well I doubt that's possible, maybe the size of a quarter, but not for another 100+ years.
My5Cents 1 year ago
AMAZING with this find we may have more disk space and faster internet everything would be faster if we could transfer files that are really small yet hold alot of information i can see alot of company's people benifiting from this in the future
Babybambambabybambam 1 year ago
Yeah, this is incredible, but why start pumping such money into programs at the current economical state? Maybe they could have started on this a bit later, if the economy were to go back to normal.
mahkilljoy 1 year ago 2
If we were still storing data on floppy disks, this site and its useless, ignorant and juvenile comments would most probably not exist.
So thank this people for doing the fundamental research that help advance science, don't hate them for spending your former money.
Especially since even your money is most probably stored in virtual storage items that were designed by the previous generations of these researchers.
ThePurpleNath 1 year ago
There are a lot of ignorant, narrow-minded people in here. Please watch the entire video.
OneInchSlap 1 year ago
glad to see my tax dollars hard at work!
chainlinkdreams 2 years ago 13
I don't think you see the broader point. Hard drives are constantly getting bigger and larger storage mediums are needed for information... with the advent of Blu-ray... but you can't always just increase the media capacity of what you're writing to... we have to find a way to store information in ways that don't always require a larger storage medium. I think there was some Indian scientist who created a single disc layered out of some sort of enzyme that can hold thousands of gigabytes.
zamardii12 2 years ago
@chainlinkdreams oh calm down at least "your tax dollars are going towards something even though this is not that important it is however creating posibilities that where thought to be imposible before and i really hate ppl that say "glad to see my tax dollars hard at work" i hate it because if it was YOUR own tax dollard that wouldnt be much as well as money doesnt work. and if you pay someone money it is no longer yours thats
bender998 1 year ago
like giving someone a peice of food them eating it and saying im glad to see my food is hard a work (in a sarcastic tone)
bender998 1 year ago
@chainlinkdreams stanford doesnt use tax dollars
8yourmother 1 month ago
@8yourmother my friend you get taxed to wipe your own ass, and yes Stanford does use tax dollars for any and everthing they can!
chainlinkdreams 1 month ago
The true significance of the work lies in storing more information in less space. "How densely can you encode information on a computer chip? The assumption has been that it's impossible to scale down below the level of atoms.
But they were able to write letters subatomic in size. This isn't a waste of money, think about how advanced our technology could be, being able to store that much more information on these little things, that would be useful to us.
tadashi6500 2 years ago
This is so fucking useless why someone would fund this
nukeurhouse12 2 years ago
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XOSiren18XO 2 years ago
look at my main comment if its still there (i did it after this)
vikingbush 2 years ago
Open your ignorant eyes. Then learn to spell. Almost all of you all sound jealous.
talleyho12 2 years ago 4
LOL calm down, they simply don't know what they do, they aren't ignorant, they a just too stupid to grasp it.
Is useless getting agitated on such morons.
jhstha 2 years ago
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they are probably like why are all these kids wasting thier time on youtube
ski123ski 2 years ago
while the economy is in a recession...colleges spend time writing small initials on metal
SeungriJun 2 years ago 2
what a waste of resources ... whats the point of this idiocy
Sal3mzafreak 2 years ago
both of ya'll got a point
ecsurvivor 2 years ago
how fantastic is that going to look on their resumes? its liek 'OMG he wrote SU super small!' (dumbass with nothing better to do)
snakeandsam 2 years ago
I know who cares about this. They could be lieing for all we know...
adi1096 2 years ago
@snakeandsam
umm... the ultimate goal of this experiment was to prove that it is possible to study matter at a sub-atomic level. (which by the way means smaller than atoms... just in case your narrow mind didn't catch that.)
jcindass89 2 years ago
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This is pointless and a complete waste of time
vikkaayy 2 years ago
did you even watch the video???
GoGwyneth 2 years ago 5
To everyone saying this is useless technology, please continue using the same computer you are in about 15-20 years. Yeah I know you won't be, but you can thank these guys for the technology of your hard drives in about 10-20 years depending on how fast they push the technology (and standards).
ChristRaper666 2 years ago 7
To everyone saying this demonstrates a useless technology: The idea behind this demonstration is that we can now record data on a sub-atomic level. This means we can make higher-capacity hard drives that take up less space in a computer. Hence, computers will get smaller and use less energy, becoming more portable, more environmentally friendly, and, eventually, less expensive.
HawkPidgeon 2 years ago 4
so agreeing with solbrand
kenziereereeful 2 years ago
well... this well probably start of with making bigger hardrives proving that 1 bit can be written on the sub-atomic level but thats about it...lol
rAYHz23 2 years ago
pathetic. pathetic. waste of money. waste of money.
anachristinegaddi 2 years ago
Although it wasn't written, was it?
imadey0utube 2 years ago
this is seriously a WASTE of people's time, and money. Like wow, the smallest writing ever??? someone needs to get a life if that is what they think of in their free time.
hazelamy282 2 years ago
i LOL'ed at this.. it was such a waste of money.. (my opinion)
zazooscm 2 years ago
totaly useless. "lol"
audelivart 2 years ago
so how does this help anyone!? what was the point of spending months making letters that no-one can read anyway?!!!
princessofsarcasm 2 years ago
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dimsummusubi 2 years ago
I hope that's sarcasm. This is awesome, much more money should be pushed into projects like this. This may not help right now, but this and similar research will lay the technological groundwork for our work in 15 or 20 years, and the more we invest now, the more we will get later, and also the FASTER.
mike18at 2 years ago 3
Millions of dollars spent so that scientists can write graffiti
solbrand 2 years ago
wow gay
KGarvan10 2 years ago
They're making things smaller and smaller.
bjmapa 2 years ago 3
WOW and here's me thinking you just had a really good sharpener...
ebonyshadows 2 years ago
maybe it helps to forget the fucking "writing"?
the real point, if i understand it, [correct me] is the potential ability to encode information at a SUB-ATOMIC level - that's Big News 1. Big News 2 is the potential in LAYERING that encoding - adding an unknown multiple of capacity for exactly the same space, by doing nothing more reading the interference pattern produced by the process at different levels - how i don't know: but sounds significant to me. sci guys, stop calling names. explain.
biteitoff 2 years ago 3
Jesus Christ, ENOUGH with the fucking war!
People don't get what the point is even though life today is better cause of many other things they wont have got the point of either. Maybe they should, but they don't. That's humanity.
Physicists; get off your high horse. You know how the world works - or you SHOULD: people & technology, most don't know or care less how or why it works. They really, really should, but they dont. maybe they cant. Get over it, as you wont enlighten society on youtube.
biteitoff 2 years ago
Yeah this is pretty useless, doesn help humanity. You are all a bunch pussy deprieved faggots!
Rodriguez9181 2 years ago
wow fuck off this is amazing
thebigyellowbanana 2 years ago
my god ur such a fukin dumbass
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Wow, comments thread is full of retards who can't understand the ancillary implications of exemplary projects. If you are Ｓｔｕｐｉｄ enough to write a comment like "OMGWTFBBQ WHYD ON'T THEY CURE CANCER INSTEAD OF WRITING LITTLE LETTERS? then you are embarrassing yourself. You are an ignorant moron if you cannot immediately grasp the overwhelmingly exciting implications of this example.
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shut the fuck up people! we are all going to die anyways so fuck these cure and shit, and it's just money go out and live in the woods or desert and find you own old life way to live god fuck! do something smart people than ranting about this amazing bullshit
Vonburon 2 years ago
isnt it just a waste of time thinking of ways to make the smallest writing than just thinking of ways to cure some diseases?!? what the heck?!?!?!
penguinseatcookies18 2 years ago
ur missing the point
jonnyjones62 2 years ago
scientists: lets figure out a cure for cancer
other scientist: no i would rather figure out how to get the smallest writing
halo3e2w1q 2 years ago 96
@halo3e2w1q woooww do some research....scientist are still trying to find cures for cancer, and there closer then you think.. These people you see here are completely different kind of scientist. Stop bagging on them, and with this project they have done can lead to many other great discoveries.
cubetube199 1 year ago
@halo3e2w1q this has NOTHING to do with small writing... this has to do with the ability to store information at a sub atomic level.
I'm sorry that you're not a computer scientist and can't appreciate the significance of such an acheivement,
I personally believed that it would never be done.
PattyManatty 6 months ago
To everyone who say's what a waste of money, well it is these types of "wastes" that are letting you use a computer, with internet, to type you utter nonesense.
yumyumwhatzohai 2 years ago 57
@yumyumwhatzohai its a waste of money, concerning the idea that we are able to store information well as it is. This "experiment" they have done though will eventually prove necessary... just not as necessary in today's world. I'll give it about 5 years until this experiment will become a commonly bought product, considering how the world is advancing so rapidly in technology.
beepee2005 10 months ago
ok now make a cell phone as small as that little copper thing and ill be impressed
slapoutz 2 years ago
wow are you kidding me? this is so stupid
Ju1cypear 2 years ago
wait, so we can make a chip with much higher density storage?
so maybe future memory cards can hold like trillions of pictures, im guessing?
or am i getting the wrong idea?
ColorfulEarth 2 years ago
lol i wouldn't want a camera that holds a trillion pics that would definitely take more than an hour at walmart to print
groovyninja 2 years ago 4
LOL you're right.
i would stick to my 4 gig.
ColorfulEarth 2 years ago
they dont use tax payers money
lets put it this way. they use their money on science. But you spend your money on beer and cigarettes. same thing it makes them happy to make new discoveries and you like to get hammered.
nauj174 2 years ago 8
yeah, and least what they do, leads to future applications.
yumyumwhatzohai 2 years ago 3
what a waste of time and money.
g0dfa7h3r989 2 years ago
then stop using your computer, because without research like this it wouldn't exist - much like your brain
joshjcomley 2 years ago 3
nice. What are we actually gonna use the writing for when we master it?
KitKatman2008 2 years ago 2
its a waste of money until someone can turn into superman and save the world with it!
kalinzxgor3 2 years ago
Well..Ok..Wish it will help us make the world better.
tylapu 2 years ago
I think the word I am looking for is WOW!
10lttrname 2 years ago
First of all, this experiment was probably not paid for with taxpayer money.
Second, this was not a useless publicity stunt. Did you hear the part at the end? This could make for cheaper, far higher density storage in the future.
leahcim165 2 years ago 4
wow, there are a lot of ignorant people who think this research is a waste of time and money and don't understand all the applications that this can be used for.
lilxbeasty 2 years ago 8
the world is saved now!! thank u stanford u
mothombo 2 years ago 3
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xxlilshawty 2 years ago
oo oops "hahaah ur so funny XD" was to mothombo XP
xxlilshawty 2 years ago
lol thanks... just seems a strange way to exempt so much energy :)
mothombo 2 years ago
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this one reason why America econ. crash because these moron smart ass mother fuker doing stupid things and we, the tax payer, paying for it.
slave880 2 years ago
Stanford doesn't use tax payer money for funds.
paltonas11 2 years ago 4
what a waste of time lol
mynnichi 2 years ago
o my god. reading through the comments you see that there are some really stupid people watching this video. it's kind of scary.
b0ttomzone 2 years ago 5
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ok now i know what theyre spending thousands of dollars for...making letters! can evry1 say "fuckk thiss"
AirShawn95 2 years ago
I thought that we still cant see how atoms even look...I thought it looked like a blurr....then how are they looking at electrons so clear...
Quiet0wing 2 years ago
the IBM image "written with individual atoms" is not true, because the surface you see behind the "atoms" consists of nickel. That entire plate consists of literally billions of atoms, and Xeon atoms must just be the atoms to cause those dents in the nickel, not the atoms themselves. It is, and always will remain impossible to see atoms with visible light or even X rays, as the wavelengths are simply much too large to reflect off a single atom. Other waves can reveal their detail though.
super6plx 2 years ago
who ever taught you partical physis must of been retarded as by simply googling "how to see atoms" you come up with
"Images of atoms have been obtained indirectly using various types of microscopes which do not use light, such as the electron microscope and the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The images are false in that the shading and colors are added by computer. Still, they give us a map showing size and location of atoms and allow us to visualize them"
Radman3333 2 years ago
omfg lol, I know. What I was implying was the IBM logo specifically; just take one look at the IBM logo and think for a few seconds. If those dots were the size of atoms, wouldn't the surface they were on also be a whole bunch of dots which are, sure enough, the size of atoms? Well for some conveniently unexplained reason, it's a smooth, continuous surface, suggesting it's made of billions of atoms.
super6plx 2 years ago
maybe that wasn't the original picture. that could have just been a representation.
sgcody5 2 years ago
well it is a representation, but the fact of the matter is, the nickel surface it was placed on would show up in scans as well, since it's on the atomic level, right? so why don't they?
Of course I could be completely wrong, there could be some science that I don't know going on behind that picture, like the ability to screen out all the atoms past a certain point (ie: the nickel surface behind the IBM atoms)
super6plx 2 years ago
I'm thinking the kind of light they used would not be reflected by nickel atoms. That's why the nickel surface is seen as smooth while the letters seem to protrude from it.
OR, a more probable idea: the element "IBM" is written in has a much larger atomic size than nickel. Thus we would be able to see the "IBM" with the nickel background appearing as a smooth surface.
Let me know what you think. =)
Anyway this is simply amazing. Imagine all the applications this research could be used for!!
LoneWolfWarrior 2 years ago
When I was doubting IBM's validity about that whole thing I was thinking of those points that you made there... I didn't really consider it a possibility too much then but for some reason hearing someone else say it as well kinda makes me think that's just how they did it. I also didn't think it was really fake, but I was more asking as to how they'd do such a thing.
well, if it is real (which I don't think they'd fake something like this), one of those theories must be right :P
super6plx 2 years ago
To all the brainless twits above who don't see the point of science. Without science, you wouldn't be online spewing your ignorance. You wouldn't own a computer. Fact is, you'd live in a cave and eat raw meat and roll around in your own shit!
Science rocks!
thatguywhojuggles 2 years ago 5
according to one of my professors atoms don't exist because nobody has ever seen an atom, its just a theory that works really well. i should show him this.
0100110101001011 2 years ago
Akmishu; I'm with ya!
aznyodel 2 years ago
theonthepsi; in it's normal state, carbon monoxide is a gas, however it can be converted into a solid, like how dihydrogen monoxide (water) can be solid, liquid or gas.
aznyodel 2 years ago
Carbon Monoxide? isn't that a gas?
theonthepsi 2 years ago
no durhhhhhhhhhhhhh im in 8th grade and i know that god
GymnastChick1234 2 years ago
I agree what's the poit if u need a microscope to read it??
IceSkater926 2 years ago
@IceSkater926 I don't think the whole point is to read it, the point is that they were able to scale down the writing into a subatomic level, think about how much information we can put into electronics, think about how advanced our technology would be. We would be able to put that much more information into something small. For example, that piece of copper.
tadashi6500 2 years ago
whats the point if you cant even fucking read it
MoonlightEcLipSeE 2 years ago
smaller than ATOMS!
deeniedeenie 2 years ago 3
i wish he would button his top button
killburn24 2 years ago
CoolDude:
Own an iPod? How about a laptop?
Ever wonder how they put the data in there?
They do it by WRITING SMALL! The smaller we can contain information, the more we can pack into electronics. If you can build something extremely small, it can DELIVER things. You know, like anticancer drugs directly into a tumor.
The science is nanotechnology, and it could make almost everything better from electronics to baseball bats. That's why writing small is a big deal.
akmishu 2 years ago 5
well he should of said that
xxmonsterzxx 2 years ago
akmishu: that's totally wrong, on an iPod, they do it by using a flash drive which stores information on a flash disk, like a USB key, and in a laptop, they use a hard drive, and in both of these processes, they don't actually "write" anything except 1 's and 0's
Bubblesses 2 years ago
Wanna try that again? All magnetic media writes 1's and 0's, including flash drives. Doesnt matter if you're considering tape drives, disk drives, flash drives, whatever - there is a write application at some point. And, of course, there's a read application as well. That's how your music is ripped, stored, and played back.
Trivia: did you realize that flash drives have a finite life in writing? (But not READING!) You might want to look that one up.
akmishu 2 years ago
Imagine... this is still considering the rules of binary information apply. Wait until we get into fuzzy logic driven quantum computer hardware!! :drools:
radicalgarbage02 2 years ago
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radicalgarbage02 2 years ago
who could be fucken bothered
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Wow i dont think any1 will give a shit about this!
wats so great about small writing!
so interesting! (NOT)
COOLDUDES59 2 years ago
GAH. When can I upgrade my computer with this? O_o
MuramasaMike 2 years ago 4
What the one lower than a Bit should be Called is milli-bit deca-bit centi-bit
Those2menoverthere 2 years ago
This is quite interesting.With this valuable scientific study,we can re-create the worlds biggest library into the size of a small compact car!=P
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spikesdatsme 2 years ago
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dont say what am i doing going onto this vidoe if im going to slag it off but i thought it was going to interesting but it was a pile of shite!!!!! what kinde of use would it be to anyone, making letters out of electons and molecules and such..... its juat unbieliveably bent in so many ways!!!!! how in the name of god is this good??? :S whos gonna use it ..... NO BODY!!!!!!!
bluecupyellowcup 2 years ago
If you don't understand the significance of being able to write and read features at a subatomic level then you don't understand what was driving quantum computing.
For the last few years we have been putting more and more data on smaller amounts of physical medium encroaching on the one bit per atom limit and we have been looking for a way to break through that limit. With technology such as this we could get multiple bits of data represented by an atom.
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happybirthdayhomie 2 years ago
i feel asleep half way through XD
VampiricDarlin 2 years ago
lmao! me too!
e3yor3 2 years ago
wow money well spent
bassalltheway 2 years ago
...and the point is?
gredangeo 2 years ago 3
using this you can get computers in a couple of years to have the same capacity in one chip as a computer from five years ago would have in ites entire storage. It would go towards achieving something like that
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starfighter1235 2 years ago
.........um what the F is the point of this?!??! Its so stupid! What is this gonna accomplish?!
1000OceansWide 2 years ago
about as much as you posting a stupid pointless comment to show the fact you don't find this to have a point. Way to contribute to what you hate.
bloodriotiori 2 years ago
Its not stupid nor is a it a pointless comment you idiot! Tell me! What is the point of this? What is it accomplishing?! How is it helping the world, and helping to save people?! Think about you read before you reply stupid comment. There wasn't a single thing stupid about my comment. Ignorant.
1000OceansWide 2 years ago
there was only 1 single stupid thing about your comment, and that was your comment in general. There's alot of things they can do with this, including making even smaller microchips that they can put information on, in order to put them into whatever they need. And reading your profile page, you obviously waste alot of your time going on videos talking about how stupid things are. Get over yourself, you aren't important either.
bloodriotiori 2 years ago
Okay well I didn't think about that! All you had to do was say that in the first place instead of insulting me!!!!!! I mean you could have taught me something, and yea what else is a teenager supposed to do?! I like to watch videos, its youtube!
1000OceansWide 2 years ago
well you're a teenager, no one expects you to think ;) it's not proper teenager behavior to think before you type, so no worries heh.
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