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Mosby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 08:39 PM
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First Demonstration of Time Cloaking
Invisibility cloaks are the result of physicists' newfound ability to distort electromagnetic fields in extreme ways. The idea is steer light around a volume of space so that anything inside this region is essentially invisible.

The effect has generated huge interest. The first invisibility cloaks worked only at microwave frequencies but in only a few years, physicists have found ways to create cloaks that work for visible light, for sound and for ocean waves. They've even designed illusion cloaks that can make one object look like another.

Today, Moti Fridman and buddies, at Cornell University in Ithaca, go a step further. These guys have designed and built a cloak that hides events in time.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26992/
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 08:45 PM
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1. Wheres my Bird of Prey???? /nt
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 09:10 PM
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2. I'd be happy enough with a Predator suit. -nt
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Rick Myers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-17-11 10:00 PM
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3. Damn, I know I parked the Warbird around here somewhere...
Ouch!
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 01:32 AM
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4. So, wait...
If I'm wearing the cloak after China King Buffet, no one in the room will notice anything until after I'm gone?
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