Jewelry robbers, magicians, exam cheats and practical jokers everywhere will have an interest in an offbeat idea launched by physicists on Tuesday: to make the passage of time invisible.
The scientists have conceived of a "spacetime cloak" which manipulates light and, in essence, conceals whole events from a viewer.
The theory is based on censoring the flow of events, which we perceive as a stream of light particles, also called photons, that strike the retina.
By exploiting a characteristic of fiber optics, the flow of photons can be slowed, events edited out and stitched back together, say the team from Imperial College London and Salford University, northwestern England.'
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See that picturegraph of the fireworks well this is what occured randonly above the roof of the house l lived at during 1999-2003.
ReplyDeleteIt came from nowhere in the dead of night exploding above, then l'd watch the sparks land around the front and backyard.
l have no understanding why it happened but it would send a jolt of shock up within me.
"Who's doing that????"
Haven't had it happen since them days.