Invented by artificial intelligence each globe contains about a million terabits or an exabyte of data (approximately the total amount of printed material on Earth at the start of the twenty-first century). Holoscopic storage uses lasers to read and write. Multiple lasers can be used for fast data rates. A cavern on Earth was found with millions of globes; total estimated data is several trillion terabytes.
The globe was built like from a sphere like particle called a skyrmion. The magnetic lines of force that maintain a skyrmion cross each other at many points as they build the cage holding the particle plasma of the globe. For the gift globe that the Aggies supplied as a decoder there were nine circulating field lines crossing each other at nine factorial locations or over three-hundred and sixty thousand unique locations.
The usual five Platonic solids were used as pictograms which were followed by an English letter. There were far more unique pictograms than just the five though. The Ems analyzed the results and found five-hundred sixty-eight unique pictograms. It was quickly seen that this was the result of all the various solids combined with one or more of the others.
For instance, combining a tetrahedral (four vertices, four faces) with a cube (eight vertices, six faces) gave a pictogram with twelve vertices and ten faces. It turned out that the extended set of pictograms also gave numbers and mathematical symbols. The Ems also recovered the message that the Aggies gave when the gift was presented along with some arithmetical operations. This was meant to be a check on the translation.
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