Physicists Store Images in Vapor
Monday, June 23, 2008 - 10:42
in Physics & Chemistry
Books are written on solid pieces of paper for an obvious reason: the atoms in a solid don`t move around much, keeping the words and pictures in place for centuries. Trying to store letters and images in a gas medium, on the other hand, seems a little far-fetched. Atoms in a gas are constantly moving around, which would move the images around with them.