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Originally posted by CLPrime
reply to post by GogoVicMorrow
From the article in the OP:
The entire experiment occurred inside a fiber optics cable. Researchers passed a beam of green light down the cable, and had it move through a lens that split the light into two frequencies, one moving slowly and the other faster. As that was happening, they shot a red laser through the beams. Since the laser “shooting” occurred during a teeny, tiny time gap, it was imperceptible.
The time duration capable of being "cloaked" is limited by the length of the light beam and the efficiency of the lens.
The time duration capable of being "cloaked" is limited by the length of the light beam and the efficiency of the lens.
Originally posted by soficrow
..."Perception is everything." Physicists with political science degrees.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by Semicollegiate
Kind of like those games in the arcade where you have to hit the button to stop a light in an exact location except in order to see the light/location you need to alter how time flows around it (and of course on a much greater speed/time scale)?edit on 6-1-2012 by GogoVicMorrow because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by polit
Think of a star. We see it shining in the sky, but hundreds of thousands of light years away it may be burned out and dead, a blackhole. We can't tell until enough time passes to and the final light has reached us. So to us it appears that star is still giving off light because of the distance, but in real time it is actually dead.
Originally posted by TiM3LoRd
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by polit
Think of a star. We see it shining in the sky, but hundreds of thousands of light years away it may be burned out and dead, a blackhole. We can't tell until enough time passes to and the final light has reached us. So to us it appears that star is still giving off light because of the distance, but in real time it is actually dead.
So the million dollar questions is which reality is the real one? " In real time it is actually dead."
Which real is the real real. Im pretty sure the star would argue (quite "heatedly" i might add) that its relative perspective of time is the real time. But an earth based observer will also argue that since the event in questions hasnt happened from their point of view that their reality is the one that matters. One might argue that since the sun is the originator of the light it's reality would be the only time that matters, But what about the other points of origin of light. Extrapolate that light a billion times a billion, a billion suns in a billion galaxies i wonder which one has the right time
Originally posted by TiM3LoRd
Originally posted by truthinfact
If time travel is Gold, this is Fools Gold.
Distorting light, Not time.
keep trying
If time is the measurement of change and to your observation there has been no passage of time but an observation change what do you call that? Hiding time???
lol Its ok the water is fine, jump right in
Originally posted by zorgon
Originally posted by soficrow
..."Perception is everything." Physicists with political science degrees.
"Reality is merely an Illusion, albeit a persistent one" Albert Einstein
Originally posted by paperface
Maybe this means it can actually be done already and this is code for dropping a hint.
Originally posted by jaduguru
Originally posted by TiM3LoRd
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by polit
Think of a star. We see it shining in the sky, but hundreds of thousands of light years away it may be burned out and dead, a blackhole. We can't tell until enough time passes to and the final light has reached us. So to us it appears that star is still giving off light because of the distance, but in real time it is actually dead.
So the million dollar questions is which reality is the real one? " In real time it is actually dead."
Which real is the real real. Im pretty sure the star would argue (quite "heatedly" i might add) that its relative perspective of time is the real time. But an earth based observer will also argue that since the event in questions hasnt happened from their point of view that their reality is the one that matters. One might argue that since the sun is the originator of the light it's reality would be the only time that matters, But what about the other points of origin of light. Extrapolate that light a billion times a billion, a billion suns in a billion galaxies i wonder which one has the right time
Um.. TimeLord .. you do understand that Polits' post put it into a simple Crayon view of how the Universal Time Scale works right ??
I have not read the whole thread .. but I can say by just reading one page your comment sounds completely Uneducated. Sorry I dont mean to offend you on this..
Im gonna try to help Polit on this ..
Imagine you are Living IN a movie. Movies are continuous "snapshots" or "pictures". Now lets suggest that your currently experiencing a point Half way through the movie .. You dont know the ending right ? You cant really observe the Opening Credits right ?...
You see.. we can ONLY observe with our eyes at a distance. Although we have very Large Eyes In the Skies that take extraordinary snapshots of our surroundings.
Those "pics" of our known universe has already happened ! We are looking at the PAST universally. ( anytime you see something .. it already was..your in the past.. ).
The Universe could be a dark cold place Right Now. You would never know unless you can prove that All the Cosmos ( those billions and billions of cosmic thingies out there are Actually still there ).
I would suggest that on a calm and cloudless night, high up in the mountains where you can look at All of the galaxies and stars, that your looking in the past. There might not be a fraction of light/stars/galaxies left in the cosmos at this "Point in Time" ..
We could in fact live in a Very Small Universe.
....
As far as the OP .. yes it is Light Manipulation ..and not time manipulation.
The amount of energy to "cloak" or "manipulate" light around a whole city so you can just do whatever you want would be not worth the time.
As far as taking a whole city "out" without Anyone knowing because you put a "Time Dial" around that particular location is absurd. Your still going to have guys outside that Field that Knew about it. Like there going to say " um..what happened to X spot ? ".
Peace out.
JG.
Originally posted by truthinfact
Originally posted by TiM3LoRd
Originally posted by truthinfact
If time travel is Gold, this is Fools Gold.
Distorting light, Not time.
keep trying
If time is the measurement of change and to your observation there has been no passage of time but an observation change what do you call that? Hiding time???
lol Its ok the water is fine, jump right in
Time doesn't really exist. We are a bunch of chemical reactions happening on a spinning rock. Time is a human illusion. Without said Illusion, we would sleep for days upon days in a row and starve to death.
Also thats not hiding anything, its distorting light.
Breaking the space-time-continiume, would be a really big deal. Like I said this is fools gold.... Go discover some god particles or somethingedit on 7-1-2012 by truthinfact because: (no reason given)