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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: headdie on November 16, 2010, 05:14:54 am

Title: would you prefer to cloak or teleport sir?
Post by: headdie on November 16, 2010, 05:14:54 am

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20101116/tuk-spacetime-cloak-could-conceal-histor-dba1618.html

Title: Re: would you prefer to cloak or teleport sir?
Post by: ssmit132 on November 16, 2010, 05:19:50 am

Hmm, interesting. It would be nice to have more details about 'cloaking that hides events' though.

For the record, I wouldn't mind either cloaking or teleporting.

Title: Re: would you prefer to cloak or teleport sir?
Post by: watsisname on November 16, 2010, 06:05:12 am

The power to conceal history?  Oh no, when did Keine escape from Gensokyo?
(http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/849/200pxkeinein.png)
(touhou joke, move along)

This is pretty cool beans.  So essentially, by using a material to slow down the speed of light, you're altering an outside observer's perception of the passage of time.  Sort of like gravitational time dilation I suppose.

Title: Re: would you prefer to cloak or teleport sir?
Post by: Bobboau on November 16, 2010, 09:31:26 am

"by adapting standard fibreoptic technology."
ok, so much like the "magic cloak" from a few years ago that only worked for a very narrow range of microwaves and it is a large chunk of some sort of solid thing