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Metamaterial 'Space-Time Cloak' Conceals Not Just Objects, But Entire Events

Posted November 17, 2010 11:13 AM

From Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now:

Forget invisibility cloaks. Researchers at Imperial College London have demonstrated - on paper, anyhow - a metamaterial "space-time cloak" that can conceal entire events from view, making a viewer see one thing while something entirely different takes place behind the cloak. Paging DARPA. Just as metamaterial "invisibility cloaks" manipulate photons to conceal their subjects or otherwise change visual perception of an object, a space-time cloak would rely on light manipulation to achieve its aims. But unlike other metamaterials, which bend light around an object to render it invisible in certain wavelengths, the space-time material would accelerate and slow photons to create gaps in visual time.

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11/17/2010 11:02 PM

don't tell the politicians...

"I have no memory of that"...

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11/18/2010 3:26 AM

wow - that process is enough to eliminate society (the world) as we know it. how long do you think it will take for this to happen. i'm not a disastorist by any means but i guess we are going to go out some way or another and that would do wouldn't it? being able to create as the early playwrites did (in the fiftenth century) illusions that became as real to the people that witnessed them as reality itself propelled our world into the state it is in now where we struggle still as to what is the best thing to do. i apologize for the wordiness of this reply.

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11/18/2010 12:31 PM

Pick one up in Diagon Alley. That's where Harry Potter goes.

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11/18/2010 6:55 PM

I have a lot of interest in metamaterials and it has amazing potential to change the world we live in, and make our present technologies obsolete by raising everything an order of magnitude. But this is downright scary.

I mean, if you have it, what for. And if criminals or your enemies have it, what then.

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