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I think information only exists in a useful context. You could hold a 8-bit abacus in your hand, but the positions of the beads would not necessarily have any meaning.
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The question is how much information can an atom store? There are 12.5 bytes in a bit and you can store single bit of data on a 12-atom surface.
Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram - ExtremeTech
Or are you asking if you can store a byte without a container? Also are you asking if you can hold a byte in your hand or if you can store a byte in the molecules and atoms that are in your hand.
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You could hold a coin in a flat position in your hand and it will be either heads or tails . . . one bit of information. A byte is eight bits. So that would take laying out eight coins in your hand, which is very doable.
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Of course, you can hold a thumb drive in your hand and it can have many megabytes of information in it. Or you can write a few words on a piece of paper and it would be the equivalent of a few bytes. Or you could take a microscope, analyze the dirt on your hand and describe it, and discover many many bytes of information in your hand from that process.
Considering that, of course, you actually are holding many terrabytes of information in your hand all the time anyway.
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