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Space-Time Cloak Could Hide Actual Events

An anonymous reader writes "My first thought was, a hypothetical space-time invisibility cloak? That must be what hypothetical crime-fighting Einstein wears when he wades into the fray! Sadly, the researchers who thought up this trick to 'hide events' say that the metamaterials we have on hand will only allow for a nanoscale demonstration at best."

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  1. Re: post by JustOK · · Score: 4, Funny

    all fine until the spacetime moderators show up.

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  2. Re: post by Cwix · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ooooo how do I get that type of mod points?

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  3. Re: post by Stingray454 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Indeed, things usually take a turn for the worse when a pissed of Jean Claude Van Damme comes knocking on your door.

  4. Re:Minkowski you bastard by Pawnn · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're making never leaving the house sound wayyy too scientific!

  5. Re:Hiding things? Isn't that the point of invisibl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought a safe cracker was one without tuna.

  6. Re:Better article by MadKeithV · · Score: 3, Funny

    Time is an illusion.
    Lunchtime doubly so.

  7. Re:Wasn't this an episode of Star Trek? by uglyduckling · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ahhh! So you spotted that massive plot hole in the Harry Potter films too ;).

  8. Re: post by Vernes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Reply to articles not yet created. -1 Reply to articles on websites not yet created -10 Reply to articles on websites on an internet not yet created -existence Erasure from existence is one hell of a ban.

  9. Re:Better article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    500 BCE called, they want their arguments back. ;)

  10. Re:Better article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sup dawg, I heard you like to talk about time as a continuous function,
    so I put a plank length in your spacetime, so you can quantize your time measurements

  11. P01st before the fr157 p0s7 by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 2, Funny

    You have to get a post before the fr1st p0st!

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  12. Look, an SEP field! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Look, an SEP field!

  13. Re:Better article by ultranova · · Score: 2, Funny

    So you're saying that the chicken crossed the road to keep from disrupting the space-time continuum and ending the universe as we know it?

    Well... Nobody's ever seen a chicken cross the road to prevent the apocalypse. I think that's evidence enough.

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  14. Re:And may I be the first to say by geekoid · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I'll believe it when I haven't had the experience I had.

    You heard me!

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