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Perhaps in the future, our realities may not be what they seem.
New cloaking device hides events in time.
Researchers at Cornell University have created a machine capable of ‘time cloaking’, or hiding a complete event from an observer. Using a electro-optic modulator to first compress the light in time on one side of the event, and a similar machine to decompress light on the other side, a short gap in time is able to be completely hidden.
To the observer watching from behind the second lens, time appears undistorted, as if the event never happened.
The device is currently capable of hiding an event of 110 nanoseconds long, with the researchers predicting that up to 120 microseconds should be possible with the current generation device.
(Source: technologyreview.com, via 8bitfuture)
