Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. If shahajahan's voice is recorded, its hundreds year old. If any atom, electron, proton contains that energy then it gives out energy and electrons move from one orbit to another. So even atom can not hold the energy for 100s of years. However it is possible to retrieve these voices/conversation but you will have to find out energy converted from voice. Nobody knows where that energy is.......

IT is gr8 if this technology is utilised properly Dont understand y ppl invent such kind of stuffs.. Gods knows da consequences..

i find that it is unbelivable for channel like ndtv to spread rumours all around... but my view has all changed ... to enhance trp's ndtv is becoming like ibn 7 .. and india tv .... very soon you would also get to hear or read about ghosts whisperes and snake charmers ...... i feel that ndtv should maintain it 's own class and niche ... and should avoid such cheap ... unusal... and wierd stuff

I agreed the points from "Trideep" who mentioned earlier to me. Ha ha ha ha ha.:)

We will be soon at the Top of the Hill and all of us will fall from there :-)

Hi All, I belive this story and I want to buy this software now!!!!!

May be possible but really unrealistic when it says sound recorded long time back in history. Atoms are recorded - Re-recorded continously so how come it is possible for the wall to retain what Shah jahan said to Noor jahan 4 or 5 centuries back. HA Ha HA

I believe this "story". This maybe true in near future. Some people couldn’t imagine Cloning was true. Some people couldn’t believe that cybertronics/cybergenetics was true. Not believing was the reason why Galileo was killed. For some world was flat. Everything is possible in distant future.

Its as much true as H.G.Wells "time machine" one could go back in time,hypothetically correct ,but practically "stupid"

After all said and done a nice way of saying April Fool. But what about the our Netas whos fool us every day every month??

April fool !!!

nic jok

Better luck next year!!

I would agree with all the above gentlemen...

This is quite stupid.I mean if we are to extend our imagination to such extents,we may think of something that will pass on sounds to us from the adjacent room,even if spoken at a very low volume or if the room is sound proof.But extracting informations from stone walls!Specially if the words are around 400 years old.Consider the natural forces(rain,winds,storms etc)that has hit the walls.If speech can create patterns on stones,so can they.No one can extract information from walls and generate speech except for the following...GOD,characters from Marvel Comics and a Time traveller.Atoms are not database repositories.

so whats new in that. Bujurgo ne pehle hi kaha hai: Deewaron ke bhi kaan hote hai...ab bas muh aur laga diya hai..!!

Stupidest thing I ever heard of! But a nice of saying april fool...!!

Unbelivable but it wiil be might dangerous then any other explosive.

The theory is absoluted malformed. It is not possible even thought it may be possible but not the way it is explained. It should have been told in much better way to fool the people. Its an April fool joke... :)

This is reason why media is so popular in india because anyone can make fool out of us.

it is absolutely ridiculous...if electrons are moving every where then what is mean by conductor and non conductor(insulator)......

April fool or not..it is absolutely ridiculous..atoms are held up by strong covalent bonds that cannot be disturbed by a simple sound signal..electrons are held up in their orbits because of their strong attractive force to the nucleus and protons cant be disturbed either because they are in the nucleus.. if voice can cause disturbance then everything solid around us would tear down as we speak..!!!

April Fool!!!!

i have a question.....are the voices recorded in some kind of database that says whose voice it is,at what date and time was it said...the storage capacity is amazing isnt it... heheheheheheheheeheheheheh watta story ...lol

good but difficult to believe.....a story cooked beautifully and technically from a popular hindi saying"deewaron k bhi kaan hote hain" anyways...good effort NDTV

How can it be that this news was not flashed by BBC & only NDTV. This is all to just popularise the news channel.It is also mentioned that the technology will be available 12 months from now means again being ready to get fooled next year.

it ws a april fool news but the technology seems possible energy in a system is constant. Energy is neither created or destroyed but only changes form (transforms). sound is also an energy. its not lost. it has changed form. this energy is not consumed only by the walls but is distributed among many elemensts around. but i think it is very difficult to extract data from all these elements.

haha ya ya.. it ws a april fool news..... rather they want us to get fooled for the complete year till next 1st april haha

I also read another article about this technology where they actually replayed the sound of someone cooking up a big crock of shit.

Hey dont forget dat 17 years and 255 crores have been invested. If this is TRUE believe me. All political scams would get unearthed and Truth will be revealed.there would be nothing as such ..Hidden. Totally Transparent..Be Optimistic. Even if its a Joke.

MY hard-disk is up for sale ... I need money to create more walls in my room ... I am going to save all my mp3s in my walls .. he he he

I can only say this much -> haa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...

It clearly mentions that the names will be published exactly 12 months....i.e. April 1st of 2008....So its a combo pack of fooling people....april 1st of 2007 and 2008....

The technology seems definitely possible. However, extracting historical conversations before the technology was invented is a tall story! The walls have no way of recording this information without help, from say, software. Well, unless, Shah Jahan also had software developers at work!!

Humm... Hats off to all and NDTV for such a exciting story.... Lets take it as a story and nothing more than that.

Guys read it carefully "The technology will be available commercially for sale 12 months from now in April 2008." It means that in next April also they will try to fool us!! Nice way to fool people.!!

It seems true!! A friend of mine told that his father a professor at IISC Bangalore was working on this theory but was not sure that it will ever work. If he has done it, this is a great success!! I shall call this friend to get the exact information. Nitin Kumar SMBL

Story writer qualifies for final round of Mahamurkh sammelan.

Do you really think that walls have so much memory that they can store teh sounds for thousand of years? wake up April fool Day is Over.

Shoudl be an April Fool Joke

200 % April Fool Story !!

Fools... Look at the date the article was published :)

No comments...

i love the serious comments more than the article, wich is a bit too obviously fake.

hello.. can you(NDTV) please tell me whether the story is made up just for fooling people or there is any true?

Good story!

I am sure it is APRIL FOOOOOOOOL

April foool banaaya, to unk gusssa aaaya..... hahahahahahaha

If anyone had the faintest idea about physics and/or common sense, they would have realised that this was an April fools joke.

Is it really a true story

Please put this in the main page, so that people can read it, i told to my friends, they asked whether this is also one of those April 1st jokes.

Imagination personified, I would love touch the feet of the person, who even thought of this great concoction. Raise to give a hand to this correspondant who even dared to think of such a beautiful fantasy and that too on a day, "all fools day".

Good article to make people believe, although we should remember the 1st April stuff! It has been well documented to believe on. Good show....!!!

Really nice work.Another addition of brain work to Indian history.We are really proud of this invention.But it will be better if this technology can be used by India to trap the militants and Pak ISI.

Hi, I glad that indians are working on this very very important project which will not only change door against future, but also solve mistery of history

Fantastic. If what Aurangzeb said so many years ago at the red fort is classified , then how does one accept that this tech is really possible. how does this affect the national security or whatever .

Lets hope that inspite of the big money that US and UK ppl wud like to pay, the invention would be used for Indians only. ATM machine which was invented by an Indian was sold for $1 million to some US bank which profitted $800 million-not sure of figures.. And we all think that most inventions come from West.

excellent, great effort by those involved. if possible can v have a demo or a sample of those like red fort walls what stored years before

Did somebody miss that today is 1st April? Your story will certainly help remind them! Well concocted. Well done.

Thats a biggest discovery of the century. surprisingly that thing remain a secret for 17 years.. Now media is making it a big news , I am sure the agency they are orking with will defenately provide them enough security which they can providea as they have spent crores on this project.....

I am an ardent fan of NDTV but certainly not a fool especially on 1st April.

oh man! we are doomed. I will only talk in open grounds, far far away from any walls from now on.

Amazing stuff. But sadly not posssible as yet. Not a very plausible Ist April Joke. Would have expected something more plausible.

Unbeleivable but sounds plausible. Could change our understanding of the past and can be used effectively for security

Hi, I just passing from here & one of my friend was told me one of the article about new technology was published on NDTV...thats y....i read it out......but really fantastic technology...really superb.I also want to congrats tht scientist who gave his valuable 17 years for innovation of this technology...wish u all the best for ur future......we,we wait with great curiosity in usage any way for your technology....b ye

This is intresting .Looking forward for more of this ..