Scientists' new time masker creates invisibility

Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Thursday, January 5, 2012 | Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

[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.

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[thecodont]

Ping. Because this is cool.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"They hid an event for 40 trillionths of a second,"

Universal matter vibration frequency.

His voice resonates all space time into being.

[mike_9958]

not to be a skeptic but... 40 trillionths of a second ?

At the speed of light that would be a spatial shift of 11mm.

[Jack Hydrazine]

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.

[muawiyah]

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.

[aimhigh]

They didn’t change time, they changed the speed of light, proving it’s not constant.

[Jack Hydrazine]

You can change the speed of light by running it through water or glass.

[Sacajaweau]

There is only one unit...the moment. The past can’t be recaptured and the future is inaccessible.

[Shadowstrike]

PING

Something that might interest you.

[mkjessup]

There is only one unit...the moment. The past can’t 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.

[reardensteel]

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.

[Sacajaweau]

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it.....