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Now You See It, Now You Don't: Time Cloak Created
Associated Press ^ | 1-4-2012 | Associated Press

Posted on 01/05/2012 2:03:02 AM PST by Captain Beyond

AP Photo/Heather Deal, Cornell University

Scientists demonstrate how they have have created a new invisibility technique that doesnt just cloak an object -- like in Harry Potter books and movies -- but masks an entire event by briefly bending the speed of light around an event. In this illustratio, an art thief walks into a museum and steasl a painting without setting off laser beam alarms or even showing up on surveillance cameras.

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.

What scientists at Cornell University did was on a much smaller scale, both in terms of events and time. It happened so quickly that it's not even a blink of an eye. Their time cloak lasts an incredibly tiny fraction of a fraction of a second. They hid an event for 40 trillionths of a second, according to a study appearing in Thursday's edition of the journal Nature.

We see events happening as light from them reaches our eyes. Usually it's a continuous flow of light. In the new research, however, scientists were able to interrupt that flow for just an instant.

Other newly created invisibility cloaks fashioned by scientists move the light beams away in the traditional three dimensions. The Cornell team alters not where the light flows but how fast it moves, changing in the dimension of time, not space.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/04/now-see-it-now-dont-time-cloak-created/?test=latestnews#ixzz1iZm0F2by

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Military/Veterans; Science
KEYWORDS: invisibilitycloak; light; napl; stealth; stringtheory
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To: stylecouncilor

´It´s something that isn´t there, but you can´t see it!´


21 posted on 01/05/2012 7:32:33 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Captain Beyond

What a coincidence! I was just talking to someone about this tomorrow.


22 posted on 01/05/2012 7:46:31 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

This next post will disappear.


23 posted on 01/05/2012 10:15:24 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Since Obama's only challengers in 2012 are in the GOP debates, include him the next 15.)
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To: Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

24 posted on 01/05/2012 10:16:55 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Since Obama's only challengers in 2012 are in the GOP debates, include him the next 15.)
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To: Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

Now it’s back!


25 posted on 01/05/2012 10:17:39 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Since Obama's only challengers in 2012 are in the GOP debates, include him the next 15.)
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To: Daffynition

26 posted on 01/05/2012 10:32:09 AM PST by Salamander (I'm your pain.....)
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To: a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...

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27 posted on 01/05/2012 10:42:37 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Salamander
LOL


28 posted on 01/05/2012 10:52:50 AM PST by Daffynition (*Pray for whatever passes for America these days* Amen. ~ ScottinVA)
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To: GreenHornet

ROFL


29 posted on 01/05/2012 11:40:19 AM PST by Salamander (I'm your pain.....)
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To: Daffynition

When my mom was a kid, she put a piece of cantaloupe up her nose.

She doesn’t remember *why* but said it was up there for weeks before she finally sneezed it out.

Gross!


30 posted on 01/05/2012 11:42:16 AM PST by Salamander (I'm your pain.....)
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To: Salamander

Legos and peas were our specialty...and *911* to the pediatrician.


31 posted on 01/05/2012 12:44:12 PM PST by Daffynition (*Pray for whatever passes for America these days* Amen. ~ ScottinVA)
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To: Captain Beyond; Slings and Arrows; shibumi; SunkenCiv
THIS
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POST

32 posted on 01/05/2012 1:13:53 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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33 posted on 01/05/2012 1:26:36 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: null and void

So, you become a “non event” with a probability of zero...


34 posted on 01/05/2012 4:33:34 PM PST by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOS!)
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To: Grizzled Bear
LISTER: Is this going to hurt?

TODHUNTER: Haven't you ever travelled interstellar?

LISTER: No.

TODHUNTER: Oh, you don't feel a thing. The stasis room creates a static field of time. See, just as X-rays can't pass through lead, time cannot penetrate a stasis field. So, although you exist, you no longer exists in time, and for you time itself does not exist. You see, although you're still a mass, you are no longer an event in space-time, you are a non-event mass with a quantum probability of zero.

LISTER: Oh. Simple as that, eh?

35 posted on 01/05/2012 5:03:39 PM PST by null and void (Day 1080 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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He's run down the curtain, and joined the choir invisible! He is a late parrot!

Thanks martin_fierro for the ping, and thanks CB for the topic.

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36 posted on 01/05/2012 6:30:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
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To: martin_fierro; Elsie

Not with my Flying Inman’s decoder ring it’s not!


37 posted on 01/05/2012 6:58:59 PM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they cannot be deceived, it's impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: shibumi

Last night I saw, upon the stair;
A little man, who wasn’t there.

He wasn’t there, again today;
Oh how I wish, he’d go away.


38 posted on 01/05/2012 8:02:30 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: shibumi

That is one symmetrical, uh..., kitty!


39 posted on 01/05/2012 8:04:03 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Daffynition

ET phone home.


40 posted on 01/05/2012 8:05:07 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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