pondzo said:And also does Data (or the storage of it) take up physical space and if so how much approximately?
UltrafastPED said:Look up Landauer's limit and reconsider your question:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle
There is a connection between information and entropy which must be taken into account.
The_Duck said:There is believed to be an upper bound on the amount of information you can store in a given volume: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound
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