Physicists develop time cloaking

I am reminded of a comic book in which one of the fighters with supernatural powers calmly informed the aggressor that she had struck him in the stomach, broken his wrist, and slammed him down to the pavement, while he had been threatening her. As she turned away, the man bent savagely at the waist, his wrist snapped, and he fell hard to the pavement. Sounded like a pretty interesting way to fight. ...I must admit that makes me want one now..

Now all they have to figure out is how to cloak the cloaking device so no one knows what they're doing. Thats what I thought happened in government. I seem to remember somewhere that in quantum mechanics the act of observation has an effect on the action taking place so a cloak would allow for a 'clean' outcome of said action without changes from observation.... I think

http://news.discovery.com/tech/device-cloaks-time-110720.html

Eureka! Now if scientist could figure out how to retool this spatio-temporal cloak, they could figure out how to stop time completely with this field, creating an effective suspended animation chamber for lengthy travels into deep space to planets that are inhabitable. Not only will you not age, but you will be able to make the trip in your lifetime so to speak. This could be used to give us more time in case of an attack to develop a counter attack, if could be expanded large enough to encompass a whole country. Image first hearing news that China is going to invade United States and Equal in... [More]

Meh. Time is constant. We'll have to solve mortality if we want to go beyond our solar system.

Eureka! Now if scientist could figure out how to retool this spatio-temporal cloak, they could figure out how to stop time completely with this field, creating an effective suspended animation chamber for lengthy travels into deep space to planets that are inhabitable. Not only will you not age, but you will be able to make the trip in your lifetime so to speak. This could be used to give us more time in case of an attack to develop a counter attack, if could be expanded large enough to encompass a whole country. Image first hearing news that China is going to invade United States and Equal in... [More]

The cloak in question does not stop time. It only uses the effective change in the speed of light when traveling through various materials, combined with the functional equivalence of diffration and dilation, to prevent a period of time from being observed. To do what you suggest we would actually have to manipulate the space-time continuum in a very precise way. If we could do that then we could also make wormholes to other planets. Secondly, the cloak only works on things enclosed inside an envelope of a particular material. It also only works for transmitted light. Encasing a country in thi... [More]

In essence the cloaking effect would be manipulated by electromagnetic fields to create a bubble, inside of which contains a timeline and space seperate from ours. Remove the cloak, the bubble collapses along with every event that occured inside of it. It really is kind of like a "deletion" if you think about it. If something like this can be created, it can also be monitored from the outside, I would think, when technology catches up. This actually makes thing of the ' philadelfia experiment ' at least how it was describet in the myth.

That is a mistake, space of course does exist but time do not at all.In relativity, time is as real as space.

Hate to be a spoil sport but for 'time cloaking' to make sense 'Time' would have to exist. I think if we first ask not 'does time exist?' or 'what is time?' - but instead ask 'what do we see in the world around us?' we see that 'things exist, move and interact' - and - if we think about this very carefully we can see that if things 'just' exist move and interact then this would explain everything we think 'suggests the existence of mysterious and undetectable TIME'. ( I have made a series of slide shows about this here - timelessness.co.uk ) Matt Welcome - London. love to hear any attempt to d... [More]