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It looks like somebody just said "it will last as long as the universe" and someone else translated it into an actual number using too many significant digits.
by kijin 7y ago
It looks like somebody just said "it will last as long as the universe" and someone else translated it into an actual number using too many significant digits.
How long can we realistically expect glass to last, judging from e.g. beads of volcanic glass embedded in the geological record?
- lstodd 7y agoNot much, regular glass transitions to crystal quite fast compared to those geological timescales. And who knows what the transition will do to the data stored at these densities. Nothing in the article states what kind of glass is used (which blows the bullshit detector right there). If they use crystalline quartz, it should last indefinitely. If it's regular glass, then 50 years if you're lucky, controlled conditions, etc, etc.