Postby Dante » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:56 pm
EDIT: Note, some of these things are actually a bit off scientifically, I'm going to correct them just for the sake of avoid false ideas but you can change it if you want RockLobster.
1. 10 times as powerful is actually too weak of a growth for the passing of nearly 300 years. The DVD is actually an advanced successor to the CD, its 10 times as powerful, and such is required to really make an impact on the market. The higher the frequency, the more data can be stored, thus blu-ray. At the same time, the highest tech I know for this from Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near IS holographic tech. Seeing as this society has rather advanced holographic monitors, that means that they can implement the same tech in their storage devices. At the same time, we can use Moores law to "predict" the storage capacity for this time period. Computer Storage Capacity generally doubles every three years, just like the other components, power-wise. That means that if DVD's (The standard today) can store 7 Gigs, by 2301, the standard storage capacity should be on the order of:
storage capacity = 7 Gigs * 2 ^ ((2301 - 2008) / 3) = 1.76 * 10 ^ 30 Gigs (10^30 is 1 followed by 30 zeros O_O), actually the term Giga wouldn't be used... we lack an SI Prefix at the current time to describe this number and in fact I doubt they would be using bytes at all, as it stands, this form of storage device would hold over 10^29 DVDs. Information in this form of environment is something entirely different than it means to us, more of a medium then a discreet quantity by any means. Physics will limit Moors Law somewhat in the future, but so far its remained right on track in a rather nice manner.
2. Water has a Ph of 7 X_x. You have the pH scale reversed, higher then 7=basic, lower then 7 = acidic, and for that matter, a pH of 4.9 is hardly acidic. Its a logarithmic scale, and soda has a pH of between 2.9-4.0. So 4.9 isn't really acidic at all, its actually very similar to water in many ways (It wouldn't hurt you, its about the acidity of coffee). I did a research assignment with Tabasco and found that it had a pH level of about 2.3-2.5 or something like that (more acidic then soda). But even this stuff won't immediately eat your flesh. I'm thinking that really bad acid rain would have a pH of about one point something (Not 1.5 though because that's about the acidity of stomach acid O_o). Battery acid is actually a little negative, and I've had the joy and honor of working with Triflic acid... 1000 times stronger then sulfuric acid YAY! (It was for an NMR experiment)
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