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Memory Storage in a Sphere

10/13/2025 8:57 AM

I don't know if this method has been explored, but I imagine a sphere made of nanoparticles that can individually change color by applying a laser to them.

The color could be reverted back with a different frequency(color)or intensity of the laser.(multiple lasers focused on one particle).

Imagine the data storage possible. Many different colors could be in the same space, without interference from other colors in same space.

The difficulty as I see it is creating nano particle that will change color depending on the frequency and intensity of a laser.

Feed back is always welcome!

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10/13/2025 9:33 AM

How does one selectively read or write to these nanoparticles, particularly to the nanoparticles not visibly at the surface of the sphere? My concern is in selecting these nanometer-scale particles.

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10/13/2025 1:40 PM

There are videos out now that show electrical circuits that, while still wired up, are actually energized by the field that is created, and that information tends to flow through that field, not through the wires. Therefore I think that the short answer is Field Modulation. Provided that the sphere is contained within a field, then the signal can get through. It is not necessarily about contact or conduction. just for fun, try this one, or others like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_X2cMHNe0

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10/13/2025 11:17 AM

Something along this line of thinking is being utilized today. See the Wiki sub article Holographic Data Storage/Two Color Recording.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_data_storage#Two-color_recording

As with everything, there appear to be advantages and disadvantages to the scheme.

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10/14/2025 12:06 AM

That has been around and evolving for a while. Back in the late 80’s early 90’s. It was been looked at using biologically that was sensitive to light that where the color did that color change red/green (1 & 0) by the speed of light?…

It would be binary type of storage/communications.. as far as intensity of color, that would be interesting, kinda like ‘fuzzy logic’ catchphrase from back in the 90’s

as far as using it as a memory storage, the obvious issues is retrieval… what alternative is there to a FAT

Nothing about sphere or nanpartical. but there appears to be working on it which I’m sure you already know.

I’m sure DARPA is on it…

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