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"Time Telescope" Could Boost Fibre-Optic Communications
An anonymous reader writes "A time lens can focus a chunk of time to a point, rather like a normal lens focuses light rays. Put two time lenses together and you can create what a Cornell University team calls a 'time domain telescope' which can magnify time. They sent a 2.5 nanosecond long light pulse, encoding 24 bits of information, into their time telescope. What came out on the other side was the same 24 bit pulse, but compressed into 92 picoseconds. Squashing more information into a light pulse could help to send more information via optical fibres."
...Ben Affleck starred.
We're boned.
So you were the guy who saw it.
If you have something that you dont want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt
.. I should know since I read them 70 picoseconds ago using my time telescope.
They've got attention, but they haven't conveyed any information.
They've conveyed the information, but it's encoded in the 24 bits of the light pulse
Geology - it's not rocket science; it's rock science
When I logged in, I was greeted with "Did you know subscribers can see articles in the future?"
I can think of a myriad of uses ..|||..|.||. eady using it for that.
FLR
Yeah, just like the laser, what has that ever done for us? Other than provide stylish accessories for sharks, of course.
Yes, but you may not like what you see. Lets just put it like this:
Last Night
You Beer
Girl Hideous
You Horny
Taxi Ride
Whale Ride
Too right.
The major disappointment that hit my face when i read it wasn't an actual time lens... that will permanently scar my face.
My kids in however many years time will ask me why i have a huge scar on my face and i will tell them about this very story.
Then they'll take out their actual time telescope and peer back to when i was typing this message, causing the universe to implode in to SCIENCE.
What happens when you take four Time Lenses and align them to be 90 degree angles to each other?
ONE MAN KNOWS THE TRUTH!
As it turns out, "part for the course" is "par for the course" when you hit one of the letters immediately adjacent to the "r".