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Scientists Punch A Hole In The Fabric Of Time With A ‘Time Cloak’
gizmodo ^ | 7/14/11 | By Kyle Wagner o

Posted on 07/14/2011 4:19:31 PM PDT by Flavius

What a preposterous world we live in, where developments in invisibility cloak tech are common enough to draw yawns. Fine, you unmovable automatons, how about a time cloak? Is that something you might be interested in?

Researchers at Cornell have designed, built and demonstrated the first “cloak” that hides events in time. The process relies on similar methods of distorting electromagnetic fields as invisibility cloaks, but it exploits a time-space duality in electromagnetic theory: diffraction and dispersion of light in space are mathematically equivalent. Scientists have used this theory to create a “time-lens [that] can, for example, magnify or compress in time”.

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KEYWORDS: stringtheory; war
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1 posted on 07/14/2011 4:19:33 PM PDT by Flavius
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To: Flavius

We should time cloak 2009-2012.


2 posted on 07/14/2011 4:22:12 PM PDT by AU72
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To: Flavius

Will it hide a Republican capitulation on tax hikes?


3 posted on 07/14/2011 4:22:29 PM PDT by familyop ("Don't worry, they'll row for a month before they figure out I'm fakin' it." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: Flavius
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Apparently my comment was cloaked!

4 posted on 07/14/2011 4:23:33 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (If you voted for Obama to prove you are not racist, vote against him to prove you are not an idiot.)
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5 posted on 07/14/2011 4:26:39 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Flavius

for later


6 posted on 07/14/2011 4:27:17 PM PDT by RC one (DO NOT RAISE THE DEBT LIMIT!)
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To: Flavius

Big Deal. We’ve been using the time cloak for decades before I came back here to make sure Sarah wins in ‘12. Ooops, I mean, that sounds like a stupid idea, yeah, that’s the ticket. uhhh, never mind.


7 posted on 07/14/2011 4:31:16 PM PDT by conservaterian (Sarah/DeMint '12)
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To: Red Badger

Ping to Badge


8 posted on 07/14/2011 4:31:23 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: familyop

Cool. I am heading for 1965 with my Sports Almanac. See you all tomorrow.


9 posted on 07/14/2011 4:31:56 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Socialism...Easier said than done.)
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To: Flavius

You want to expand time?

Just sit in on one of my Pastor’s sermons.


10 posted on 07/14/2011 4:33:51 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: RC one

You already did that. BTW, didn’t we read that the volcano erupting in Italy has chnged the time of the clocks there by something like fifteen minutes?


11 posted on 07/14/2011 4:34:13 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: screaminsunshine
See you all tomorrow.

Why don't you stop by yesterday, instead. I had some free time between 2 and 5. We can had a cup of coffee.

12 posted on 07/14/2011 4:37:03 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (The tea party was and is about the right to govern ourselves, according to natural right.)
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To: Flavius

Scientists have used this theory to create a “time-lens [that] can, for example, magnify...in time”.

Can these be made into women`s contact lenses?


13 posted on 07/14/2011 4:38:29 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: Flavius

I can do that when I am getting ready to go somewhere. I can turn 10 minutes into a half an hour. That’s what my wife says.


14 posted on 07/14/2011 4:39:23 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: RC one

How will you be sure?


15 posted on 07/14/2011 4:39:56 PM PDT by M1911A1
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To: AU72
I don't see how they explain how to demodulate the flux capacitance, without which time acceleration, based upon instantaneous nano particle spin reversal could not occur.

I remain unconvinced.

16 posted on 07/14/2011 4:40:40 PM PDT by OldCorps
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To: AU72
I don't see how they explain how to demodulate the flux capacitance, without which time acceleration, based upon instantaneous nano particle spin reversal could not occur.

I remain unconvinced.

17 posted on 07/14/2011 4:40:51 PM PDT by OldCorps
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To: AU72
I don't see how they explain how to demodulate the flux capacitance, without which time acceleration, based upon instantaneous nano particle spin reversal could not occur.

I remain unconvinced.

18 posted on 07/14/2011 4:40:51 PM PDT by OldCorps
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To: Flavius

120 nanoseconds is not much of a timeline.....

I was REALLY hoping we could shrink Obama time in office to about 2 minutes


19 posted on 07/14/2011 4:41:26 PM PDT by Popman (Obama. First Marxist to turn a five year Marxist plan into a 4 year administration.)
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To: Flavius

So if this cloak hides events in time, how do they know that anything happened?


20 posted on 07/14/2011 4:44:09 PM PDT by filospinato
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