Researchers at Cornell have designed, built and demonstrated the first "cloak" that hides events in time. The process relies on similar methods of distorting electromagnetic fields as invisibility cloaks, but it exploits a time-space duality in electromagnetic theory: diffraction and dispersion of light in space are mathematically equivalent. Scientists have used this theory to create a "time-lens [that] can, for example, magnify or compress in time."

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via - Gizmodo

Huh?

It allows for small events to appear outside of time for nanoseconds.

Huh? lol

I think it's fascinating as hell. Many believe aliens haven't been visiting us. Instead, they think time travelers are. What if those grey, short things with big black eyes... are really us in the far future? Fuuuuu lol

Huh?

**** just got real

^he gets it I think.

For me, I'm assuming that scientists are near to perfecting something once thought impossible.

I don't think it is time travelers at all. Humans are flawed, and in no time would make a mistake of coming forward, go for personal gain, etc. Just unlikely. I don't really think time travel is ever going to be possible. Aliens seem more likely to me.

Maybe they have, but were thrown into asylums as crazies. Maybe some showed signs of powers, and were worshipped. Or thought of as witches, and burned.

Not that I believe any of that. Just keeping my mind open.

Naw I don't buy into it. I'm pretty sure anyone time traveling has a plan and would know how to go about coming out with it, on top of that why would you time travel and get caught when you can just look up what happened to you online. I would google myself before i went into the past to make sure i have my bases covered and don't die.

Well, perhaps it doesn't exactly happen, until you've breached time. If you looked into the past before you left, nothing would have changed yet.

If I'm understanding this correctly, that device makes it so that for a very short period in our time things happen more rapidly within a tiny area (i.e. slowing time), right? It is also theoretically possible to "travel forwards in time" rapidly. Supposedly the closer to the speed of light particles are traveling, the slower they move/vibrate/etc. (i.e. slower aging so you could move forward in the future farther). However, I don't think there are any theories for moving backwards in time. I personally think that, though it could be slowed or sped up relatively, time still always flows forward. Unless science f***ing breaks it lol.

What sucks if you think about it is, if you could travel back in time and change something then subsequently return, it's possible that you're not actually changing anything in your timeline, but leaving the old reality and creating a new one just for yourself lol. So even if in the future some beings had the ability to travel through time, maybe we wouldn't ever know it until we do it ourselves, because the people in the past they're visiting are in a new timeline.

lol time traveling theories are fun to think about.

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They are fun to think about. There are some brilliant minds, that think there are infinite dimensions for all places in the universe. That would mean limitless possibilities, depending what Earth you were on. Kind of like that old TV show, Sliders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVR320FouqE

the world has moved on

I'm not certain of anything. Even some things right in front of me.

I do believe in endless possibilities. No determinism/fate and no religion. Not really judging those who are religious, I appreciate it as a moral guideline, it's just often abused, especially if you look at it throughout history, like the Crusades.

I'm not certain of anything. Even some things right in front of me.

From a book

That makes me feel better, GG. I honestly didn't know what the hell you meant. haha

Explanation from another forum:

"If I understand it:

It's not a cloaking device, as in Star Trek.

It doesn't alter time.

It simply distorts the "time line" so the events "never" occurred

Where as, with a cloaking device, we're still aware that the object exists and is cloaked.

So this simply tears pages from the book and the reader is unaware of the hole in the plot. Because how can you be aware that something is missing, if you don't know it's supposed to be there in the first place?"

So many different thoughts on time travel. I've always found the idea fascinating. Neat news.

Despite anybody's opinions... you have to agree just the idea of this is pretty cool.