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Is the internet massive. But there is … the real mass? Of course, large server farms and fiber-optic cables, but we do not intend on the infrastructure of the Internet. We want to tell the Internet itself. Information. Data. Cybernetics. The maintenance and movement of storage and moving to the cyber space requires energy that is the mass of Einstein, what the mass should be calculated, the theoretical, the weight of the Internet.
In 2006, on the teenage days of the Internet, a Harvard Physical Named Russell Seitz he attempted. Its the result? Given the mass of servers energy, the Internet is about 50 grams or several strawberries. People still use Seitz’s comparison with today. We are all wasting our lives for something we want to swallow in a bite!
Several since 2006, a few things have happened since the introduction of 2006 to give a few names. . Different method. Information about the Internet is written in bits, so what will you do if you look at the weight of the elects to encode these bits? 40 Petabytes estimated to be 40 petabyte, using all Internet traffic, put the weight of the Internet in a gram (5 million). Thus, it looks like a strawberry water squeezing. The string thought that it was time to investigate ourselves.
First: Server-power method. “Fifty grams are just wrong,” says President Christopher says white NEC Laboratories America And a veteran of the floor research power BELL labs. Other scientists agreed. Daniel Whiteson, UC Irvine and a particle physical in the cohost of Podcast Daniel and Kelly’s unusual universe“A donut that is extremely convenient to obtain the desired facilities,” Hestosterous said. Hestosterous said.
Discover magazine’s calculation also set us off. Unlike the Internet, there are more with the transmission of the Internet. It also expects a number of electrons that need to encode the information. In fact, the number is incredibly varying and depends on special chips and schemes used.
The white proposed a third method. Do we just put all the information stored on the Internet all the information in the world in all parts of the world? How much energy do you need to encoding this data and how much weight would it be? In 2018, the International Information Corporation estimated that the Internet database will reach the Internet by 2025 175 zettabytesor 1.65 x 1024 bits. (1 zettabyte = 1024To 7 bytes and 1 bytes = 8 bits.) White suggested to hit these bits with mathematical term-kBT LN2 seizes the minimum energy needed to rebuild a little if you are interested. (Temperature is a factor, because data storage is easier in cold conditions. Meaning: Internet, Tucson is lighter than in Arizona.) Then we can represent energy and call E = MC2nd reach the general mass. At room temperature, the integrity of the Internet will attract (1.65 x 10)24) X (2.9 × 10-21) / c2ndor 5.32 x 10-14 gram. This is 53 quadrillionths a gram.
Which … it’s fun. Although there are almost no physical mass, the internet is still feel Heavy, we took this billions every day. White, who had previously attempted similar philosophical calculations, is actually so complicated by the Internet, but how complicated is that you do not try? In recent years, scientists have floated the idea of storing information within the building blocks of nature: DNA. What is the Internet in these conditions? Current estimates Say 1 grams can cod in DNA 215 Petabyt or 215 x 1015 Bytes information. If the Internet is 175 x 1024To 7 Bytes, this is 960,947 grams of DNA. 10.6 American is the same as men. Or one-third of a cybergruck. Or 64,000 strawberries.
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