Sunday, January 8, 2012

Now you almost didn't see it (What?)

Cornell Scientists Did ... Something ... With Light

Cornell researchers have invented a "time masker," according to an AP article , which is capable of hiding "an event for 40 trillionths of a second" by altering not where the light flows but how fast it moves, changing in the dimension of time, not space.

Huh? What was that?

"You kind of create a hole in time where an event takes place," the study's co-author, Alexander Gaeta, director of Cornell's School of Applied and Engineering Physics, explains. "You just don't know that anything ever happened." 

Oh. Okay. Well, that explains everything.

So what we have is an invisibility cloak.

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