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Scientists' new time masker creates invisibility
Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^
| Thursday, January 5, 2012
| Seth Borenstein, Associated Press
Posted on 01/05/2012 7:13:21 PM PST by thecodont
Washington --
It's one thing to make an object invisible, like Harry Potter's mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker.
Think of it as an art heist that takes place before your eyes and surveillance cameras. You don't see the thief strolling into the museum, taking the painting down or walking away, but he did. It's not just that the thief is invisible - his whole activity is.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/04/MNB01ML0O6.DTL#ixzz1idxOZQsa
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cornell; defense; harrypotter; invisibility; invisibilitycloak; invisibleevents
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posted on
01/05/2012 7:13:27 PM PST
by
thecodont
To: SunkenCiv
Ping. Because this is cool.
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posted on
01/05/2012 7:14:14 PM PST
by
thecodont
To: thecodont
>"They hid an event for 40 trillionths of a second,"Universal matter vibration frequency.
His voice resonates all space time into being.
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posted on
01/05/2012 7:38:56 PM PST
by
rawcatslyentist
(It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
To: thecodont
not to be a skeptic but... 40 trillionths of a second ?
At the speed of light that would be a spatial shift of 11mm.
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posted on
01/05/2012 7:41:37 PM PST
by
mike_9958
To: thecodont
If they are screwing around with time then that means they are screwing around with gravity because gravity affects time.
The greater the gravitational field the slower time runs in that field relative to time at a location farther away and outside of it.
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posted on
01/05/2012 7:42:49 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: thecodont
Just thinking how this could be used to TRICK your cable company's fiber optic system. All the good stuff is on stream, and there are processes that are constantly checking to make sure YOU are not accessing it without approval, but what if there's nothing to check!
What was it those ol'boys wanted? To stop electronic downloaders?
How quaint.
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posted on
01/05/2012 7:43:43 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Jack Hydrazine
They didn’t change time, they changed the speed of light, proving it’s not constant.
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posted on
01/05/2012 7:45:34 PM PST
by
aimhigh
To: aimhigh
You can change the speed of light by running it through water or glass.
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posted on
01/05/2012 7:50:26 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
There is only one unit...the moment. The past can’t be recaptured and the future is inaccessible.
To: ClearBlueSky
PING
Something that might interest you.
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posted on
01/05/2012 8:25:56 PM PST
by
Shadowstrike
(Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
To: Sacajaweau
There is only one unit...the moment. The past cant be recaptured and the future is inaccessible.
Sure it can. I can go back through your posting history on FR and find one of your comments that was just as inane as any post you make in the future.
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posted on
01/05/2012 8:45:06 PM PST
by
mkjessup
(Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history, 0bama is the yellow stain in front.)
To: thecodont
They did not change time. They simply changed the perception of what happens in space during a slice of time by making what happened invisible. No light, no visibility. No visibility does not mean nothing happened, it just means you can’t see it happen.
To: reardensteel
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it.....
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