So, in one of my computer classes today, we were discussing the possibility that someday we will have computers based on light waves instead of sound waves as in AC, for nearly infinitely fast processing, literally at the speed of light, and how we are already dabbling in that with fiber optics.
So, we then got onto the topic of why we can't do that yet- obviously we cannot yet store light.
So now for a theoretical and hypothetical (yet plausible in the future)-
As we know, light is not matter, it takes up no space. You can have a defined volume, yet continue to add light to it and still have the same amount of matter as you started with. So with that said, could one say that anyway to store light even a little device the size of a pinead, have the capability to store an infinite amount of light. Since light is like the mathematical "point" having no dimensions, you could theoretically put as much information in that device, and make that information, because it is light, infinitely small and continue to put on more light, and then have essentially a never ending hard drive?
Tell me what you think and if this is indeed plausible, thanks.
So, we then got onto the topic of why we can't do that yet- obviously we cannot yet store light.
So now for a theoretical and hypothetical (yet plausible in the future)-
As we know, light is not matter, it takes up no space. You can have a defined volume, yet continue to add light to it and still have the same amount of matter as you started with. So with that said, could one say that anyway to store light even a little device the size of a pinead, have the capability to store an infinite amount of light. Since light is like the mathematical "point" having no dimensions, you could theoretically put as much information in that device, and make that information, because it is light, infinitely small and continue to put on more light, and then have essentially a never ending hard drive?
Tell me what you think and if this is indeed plausible, thanks.