Scientists have developed a new one of a kind disc that can preserve the breadth of information and knowledge of the human race for future generations, that can be utilized by archivists and librarians in a very convenient and tough format that can last for literally eons.

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This works by data being written onto the discs via ultra fast, high powered laser pulses that can create nanostructures. These structures appear as dots that are arranged into three layers measuring 1/5,000,000 of a meter in between.  

These nanostructures are also key to storing massive amounts of information as these changes how light travels through a glass disc, that can alter its polarization. With this new polarized light, data can be read using an optical microscope and a polarizer.

The information that is encoded inside this disc is now carried out in five dimensions which include additional aspects such as the size and orientation of the nanostructures, apart from the three dimensional positioning inside the disc.

These 5D eternal storage glass discs where the data is encoded upon, is ideally more durable and can prevent further degradation over time as opposed to regular storage formats. This means that they virtually possess a limitless lifespan that can be stored in normal conditions for ages.

To be exact, researchers also believe that each disc can preserve data for up to 13.8 billion years which is about the same age of the entire universe after the Big Bang event.

To elaborate this, the team have successfully encoded some of the most important texts in the history of mankind like the United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights, the King James Bible and Issac Newton's Opticks, which are currently recorded.

Since this special technology is still being developed, disc production has been quite a challenging and difficult process, however, according to Aabid Patel from the University of Southampton, the technology of this disc that is equivalent to the DVD player's capability of reading that amount of almost infinite data can be developed within a few decades.

According to Peter Kazansky from the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre, it is quite exciting to think how the team created this technology that can preserve important, historical documents that can be stored as information in a special format for future generations, adding that this technology can secure the last evidence of the human civilization, to keep everything the human race had learned.