DARPA Research: Pentagon Scientists Create 'Time Holes' To Hide Events As They Happen

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We're used to the idea of soldiers working in the dark or even via remote control. [link to www.huffingtonpost.co.uk] But how about working in an cloud of invisibility that not only masks objects - but actual events?

Well, catch up. American scientists working for the Pentagon have published research which demonstrates how to hide history as it happens.

A team at Cornell University working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has published a report in the journal Nature demonstrating how to hide an event for 40 trillionths of a second. [link to www.nature.com] The effect, described as "spatio-temporal cloaking", depends on the ability to slow the flow of light from events as they occur - making them impossible to observe.

Researchers passed a beam of green light through a lens while travelling inside a fiber-optic cable. The lens split the light into one slow beam and one fast beam, and then fired a red laser into the same space. The red laser was not visible, because it was fired during the gap between the different green lasers.

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