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(PhysOrg.com) Cool 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   (physorg.com) divider line 257
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2012-01-04 04:11:55 PM
upload.wikimedia.org
I'll be taking that.
 
2012-01-04 04:19:15 PM
www.timecube.com

/posted from tomorrow today
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2012-01-04 04:21:12 PM
Reminds me a little of "slow glass" from an SF story by Bob Shaw.
 
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.
 
2012-01-04 04:53:41 PM
for a fraction of a second, an event cannot be seen

catvpn.com
 
2012-01-04 04:55:25 PM
Wild. Can someone explain this.
 
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.
 
2012-01-04 04:56:03 PM
You had me at Pentagon physicists, subby.
 
2012-01-04 04:57:45 PM
I can do that too, it's called BOOZE!
 
2012-01-04 04:59:41 PM
Is this that thingy that uses high energy magnetic fields to bend light ?
 
2012-01-04 04:59:49 PM
Finally I can fark your mom and nobody will know.
 
2012-01-04 05:00:05 PM
Corvus: I can do that too, it's called BOOZE!

No, the cameras and your friends totally caught you yakking in the fish tank.
 
2012-01-04 05:00:42 PM
Approves....

mos.totalfilm.com
 
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.
 
2012-01-04 05:00:50 PM
I already submitted this story tomorrow!
 
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.
 
2012-01-04 05:00:56 PM
cgraves67: 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?

www.nhatky.in
 
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?
 
2012-01-04 05:01:07 PM
Prototyped by legends of high school geeks outside girls' gym lockers....
 
2012-01-04 05:01:47 PM
You don't say?

thedirt666.weebly.com
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
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.
 
2012-01-04 05:03:23 PM
little men with a big eraser
 
2012-01-04 05:04:07 PM
images.icanhascheezburger.com
 
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?
 
2012-01-04 05:04:14 PM
Pfft. Move to Cincinnatti, and you can not see an event for 3 hours
 
2012-01-04 05:04:24 PM
MaxxLarge: 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.
 
2012-01-04 05:04:45 PM
georgeyporgey: Approves....

[mos.totalfilm.com image 420x464]


Can you see me? Oh, now be honest, Captain, warrior to warrior. You do prefer it this way, don't you?
 
2012-01-04 05:05:21 PM
This is
and they all
 
2012-01-04 05:05:51 PM
This. Is. AWESOME. Real life science fictiony stuff kicks arse.
 
2012-01-04 05:05:52 PM
What a time cloak might look like:
t1.gstatic.com
 
2012-01-04 05:05:55 PM
MaxxLarge: The bartender says, "I'm sorry, we don't serve theoretical sub-atomic particles here."

A neutrino walks into a bar.


nice
 
2012-01-04 05:06:40 PM
That's so they can steal more taxpayer money.
 
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.

i.imgur.com

/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.
 
2012-01-04 05:06:52 PM
this was cool a few months ago
 
2012-01-04 05:07:09 PM
I'm a little alarmed that the Pentagon has physicists.
 
2012-01-04 05:07:22 PM
The "no ship", in Chapterhouse Dune, springs to mind
 
2012-01-04 05:08:29 PM
RedEmily: Wild. Can someone explain this.

us.acidcow.com

...and he's right, that makes no sense, so think of it as undrawing a non-blank.
 
2012-01-04 05:09:21 PM
Headso: 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.
 
2012-01-04 05:10:14 PM
I see no one has posted this yet:

catvpn.com

/I mean: I don't see...
 
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.
 
2012-01-04 05:11:06 PM
www.horrorphile.net
 
2012-01-04 05:11:09 PM
It's a street light
 
2012-01-04 05:12:24 PM
What happens if you don't iron the cloak?
2.bp.blogspot.com
I can haz Tesseract?
 
2012-01-04 05:12:54 PM
Smelly Pirate Hooker: I'm a little alarmed that the Pentagon has physicists.

www.mphpa.org

Ahem
 
2012-01-04 05:13:25 PM
nowallsmusic.com

Traveling thru time at the speed of... regular time.

/hot like sqwizgar
 
2012-01-04 05:13:41 PM
Soon we will be fielding prism tanks and chronotroopers. We just need the ore to tech up.
 
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?
 
2012-01-04 05:15:33 PM
macross87: [www.horrorphile.net image 640x348]

Awesome movie!
 
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.
 
2012-01-04 05:16:29 PM
i34.photobucket.com

Too Obscure? I surely hope not.
 
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