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Pentagon physicists devise a "time cloak"; the device manipulates the flow of light in such a way that for a fraction of a second, an event cannot be seen
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Diogenes
2012-01-04 04:11:55 PM
I'll
be taking that.
A Fark Handle
2012-01-04 04:19:15 PM
/posted from tomorrow today
ZAZ
2012-01-04 04:21:12 PM
Reminds me a little of "slow glass" from an SF story by Bob Shaw.
cgraves67
2012-01-04 04:36:36 PM
Wow, they made something happen outside of time. Then introduced it into the past. That's pretty wild.
veedeevadeevoodee
2012-01-04 04:53:41 PM
for a fraction of a second, an event cannot be seen
RedEmily
2012-01-04 04:55:25 PM
Wild. Can someone explain this.
Lith
2012-01-04 04:55:33 PM
Are you guys sure the inventor didn't just, I don't know, maybe it's just me but, blink.
K.B.O. Winston
2012-01-04 04:56:03 PM
You had me at Pentagon physicists, subby.
Corvus
2012-01-04 04:57:45 PM
I can do that too, it's called BOOZE!
Evil Mackerel
2012-01-04 04:59:41 PM
Is this that thingy that uses high energy magnetic fields to bend light ?
Shazam999
2012-01-04 04:59:49 PM
Finally I can fark your mom and nobody will know.
unicron702
2012-01-04 05:00:05 PM
Corvus
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I can do that too, it's called BOOZE!
No, the cameras and your friends totally caught you yakking in the fish tank.
georgeyporgey
2012-01-04 05:00:42 PM
Approves....
Calamormine
2012-01-04 05:00:43 PM
FTA:
Another way to think of it is as if scientists edited or erased a split second of history. It's as if you are watching a movie with a scene inserted that you don't see or notice. It's there in the movie, but it's not something you saw, said study co-author Moti Fridman, a physics researcher at Cornell.
That explains Primer then.
Crewmannumber6
2012-01-04 05:00:50 PM
I already submitted this story tomorrow!
MaxxLarge
2012-01-04 05:00:51 PM
The bartender says, "I'm sorry, we don't serve theoretical sub-atomic particles here."
A neutrino walks into a bar.
A Fark Handle
2012-01-04 05:00:56 PM
cgraves67
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Wow, they made something happen outside of time. Then introduced it into the past. That's pretty wild.
some you're saying the philadelphia experiment was real?
Headso
2012-01-04 05:01:04 PM
Are they saying the light from the "event" you are going to see is split down two tubes one faster and one slower and the stuff that happens in between those two times you don't see?
OtherLittleGuy
2012-01-04 05:01:07 PM
Prototyped by legends of high school geeks outside girls' gym lockers....
cdsmith74
2012-01-04 05:01:47 PM
You don't say?
ZAZ
2012-01-04 05:02:22 PM
I think they're taking the film of the incident, excising the unwanted frames, and running the projector at slightly lower speed so the total time comes out right.
Sticky Hands
2012-01-04 05:03:23 PM
little men with a big eraser
girljen
2012-01-04 05:04:07 PM
Leo Bloom's Freakout
2012-01-04 05:04:12 PM
So.... I didn't like the summary in the article, but think I got it.
If our eye is the projector screen where light is being received... the normal speed light is hitting it, and then shortly before the time of the event desiring to be masked, some of the normal light is sent along a slower path to be received when the event would be occurring? Therefore to the viewer, the image never changes and the event never occurred?
HaywoodJablonski
2012-01-04 05:04:14 PM
Pfft. Move to Cincinnatti, and you can not see an event for 3 hours
TheSpaceAdmiral
2012-01-04 05:04:24 PM
MaxxLarge
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The bartender says, "I'm sorry, we don't serve theoretical sub-atomic particles here."
A neutrino walks into a bar.
I hope you meant "tachyon" not "neutrino" and aren't just completely insane.
BarbadoSlim
2012-01-04 05:04:45 PM
georgeyporgey
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Approves....
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Can you see me? Oh, now be honest, Captain, warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you?
Ianman
2012-01-04 05:05:21 PM
This is
and they all
iworkedatsubway
2012-01-04 05:05:51 PM
This. Is. AWESOME. Real life science fictiony stuff kicks arse.
MoronLessOff
2012-01-04 05:05:52 PM
What a time cloak might look like:
Jacobin
2012-01-04 05:05:55 PM
MaxxLarge
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The bartender says, "I'm sorry, we don't serve theoretical sub-atomic particles here."
A neutrino walks into a bar.
nice
HotIgneous Intruder
2012-01-04 05:06:40 PM
That's so they can steal more taxpayer money.
iron de havilland
2012-01-04 05:06:50 PM
This is all happening in beams of light that move too fast for the human eye to see.
/Because, as eny fule kno only very slow beams of light are detected by the human eye... ?
//I guess these beams of light are simply travelling faster than the speed of light.
ultraholland
2012-01-04 05:06:52 PM
this was cool a few months ago
Smelly Pirate Hooker
2012-01-04 05:07:09 PM
I'm a little alarmed that the Pentagon has physicists.
Artemus_Hackwell
2012-01-04 05:07:22 PM
The "no ship", in Chapterhouse Dune, springs to mind
Sticky Hands
2012-01-04 05:08:29 PM
RedEmily
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Wild. Can someone explain this.
...and he's right, that makes no sense, so think of it as undrawing a non-blank.
Pinner
2012-01-04 05:09:21 PM
Headso
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Are they saying the light from the "event" you are going to see is split down two tubes one faster and one slower and the stuff that happens in between those two times you don't see?
Yes. The Cornell scientist speeds up one half of the light beam, the Duke scientist sucks the other half back a bit slower.
medius
2012-01-04 05:10:14 PM
I see no one has posted this yet:
/I mean: I don't see...
J. Frank Parnell
2012-01-04 05:10:22 PM
Meh, the Pentagon has been doing things invisibly for decades, but this does up the stakes on what they can get away with.
macross87
2012-01-04 05:11:06 PM
TravisBickle62
2012-01-04 05:11:09 PM
It's a street light
MythDragon
2012-01-04 05:12:24 PM
What happens if you don't iron the cloak?
I can haz Tesseract?
Leo Bloom's Freakout
2012-01-04 05:12:54 PM
Smelly Pirate Hooker
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I'm a little alarmed that the Pentagon has physicists.
Ahem
Keigh
2012-01-04 05:13:25 PM
Traveling thru time at the speed of... regular time.
/hot like sqwizgar
Gergesa
2012-01-04 05:13:41 PM
Soon we will be fielding prism tanks and chronotroopers. We just need the ore to tech up.
eraser8
2012-01-04 05:14:56 PM
Does Michio Kaku do nothing else but wait for reporters to call and ask his opinion on science stories?
Ianman
2012-01-04 05:15:33 PM
macross87
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Awesome movie!
Torqueknot
2012-01-04 05:16:13 PM
So, can't be seen equals didn't happen?
Dumbasses.
They essentialy slowed light down so stuff happening for fraction of a second didn't get 'recorded', IE no light bounced off it to show up to those of us who use light to see with. If you 'saw' by way of say smell or sound you would still see it.
At least that is how I grok it. I could be just totaly lost.
Dinobot
2012-01-04 05:16:29 PM
Too Obscure? I surely hope not.
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