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Assuming my math is right, if your stone carving were accurate to 1 micron, in order to encode a 140 character 'tweet' using this method, you would need a stone tablet 10^163 times larger than the observable universe. (!)
ugh...I just did a rough estimate for the same problem with clocks...it's not much better. So much for that idea!
I wonder if there is a way to use math to squeeze more digits out of this situation...
Well, what are you trying to compress the information into, exactly? If you're trying to compress it into "one sentence", surely the easiest way is just to use the word "and" a lot. If you want to embed lots of sentences in it, then say something along the lines of "the sentence encoded by the number 1775926438157057167957252 is true, and the sentence encoded by the number 478910336475999172548926174999937 is true, and..."