New form of cloaking...

[dbeard92]

Apparently a new form of cloaking is being developed. Give this a read:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 4-13-57-03

However, and it just might be me, but something seems a little off about that article. It fails to address a few issues...
Firstly, if you (they) can't tell that the action has occurred, then how can they prove that it actually has? (especially on that scale)
Secondly, maybe someone can explain to me how it is affecting time rather than just velocity and furthermore why it wouldn't delay the action instead of totally cloaking it.
I can't seem to find anymore info on the matter though. Maybe someone can clear things up for me.

Link OK'ed -hawknc

[the_bandersnatch]

I think in this case "temporal cloaking" is a bit of a misnomer, you are correct in saying it's "merely" messing with the velocities of the beam components. So, not as exciting as it initially sounds but promising research nonetheless, and will no doubt lead to avenues of research thus far unexpected.

[Heisenberg]

Lagging IRL? Gross.

[schmiggen]

Firstly, if you (they) can't tell that the action has occurred, then how can they prove that it actually has? (especially on that scale)
Secondly, maybe someone can explain to me how it is affecting time rather than just velocity and furthermore why it wouldn't delay the action instead of totally cloaking it.

You can tell that the action has occurred, but the idea is that you don't observe that it has happened until later than you ordinarily would have. That is why they say it is affecting time; the event is not observed at the time it would otherwise have been, and from the observer's perspective it seems to happen later.

...I think.

[dbeard92]

OK that makes a little more sense, but I still wouldn't necessarily say it is affecting time, rather delaying it, and even still it wouldn't really be cloaking so much as it would be, as previously mentioned, lagging. And agreed, gross. Also it doesn't even affect the velocity necessarily, it just increases the distance it has to travel over the same amount of time and at the same speed as the unaffected light... Wait, I guess it would affect velocity because its a vector (maybe? or would the coiling of the fiber optics cancel each other out directionally?)