storage · physical
Ask Prometheusa place where matter is kept for later use
Storage (noun) means: a place where matter is kept for later use. It emerges from matter, container, space, time: the container maintains matter in a spatial extent over time, enabling its future application. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 7, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway stores 1.2 million seed samples in permafrost at -18°C. biology
- The Hoover Dam's reservoir, Lake Mead, held 32 billion cubic meters of water in 2000 before drought reduced it by half. engineering
- Bitcoin's blockchain immutably stores 400 gigabytes of transaction data across thousands of nodes as of 2023. computing
Emergence
through: the container maintains matter in a spatial extent over time, enabling its future application
- persisted availability of matter
- temporal deferral of use
- controlled access to contents
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (93 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| is-a | container.object | a storage is a kind of container |