Making the passage of time invisible (and the illusion of a Star Trek transporter)

[DavidDvorkin]

While a range of ingenious man-made materials bring us ever closer to realising the possibility of cloaking objects from visible light, research from Imperial College London is now taking invisibility into the fourth dimension - time - creating the groundbreaking potential to hide whole events.

The laws of physics might make the creation of a transporter which can dematerialise objects and then rematerialise them elsewhere a little beyond us, but it is now being suggested that an object could move from one region of space to another, completely unseen by anyone watching.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-11/iop-mtp111510.php

[Uncle Joe]

1. Fascinating, kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread, DavidDvorkin.

[Subdivisions]

7. Indeed...

[Uncle Joe]

9. That's who I'm thinking of every time I use that word.

:thumbsup: :rofl:

[DCKit]

2. If they can make the period of 2000-2008 disappear, I'm all for it. n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Good one.

[Uncle Joe]

4. From my take on it, the illusion only works going forward.

:(

[DavidDvorkin]

5. At this point, we don't have a need for an illusion when one is going backward in time

Right?

[Uncle Joe]

8. Yes but I don't believe this will allow going backward. n/t

[DCKit]

6. Berry Punny. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

10. ttt