Scientists claim they made event invisible

by Chris Matyszczyk January 5, 2012 1:51 PM PS

"Think of all the things you wish you'd never seen happen.
Your auntie making that speech at Thanksgiving dinner about birds, bees, and Bieber. Your lover accusing you of infidelity with an alien. Every last minute of "From Justin to Kelly."
Well, now some very clever Cornell people want to offer you hope, mingled with fact.
Research published in Nature magazine, helpfully translated by the Associated Press, declares that these scientists successfully managed to time-cloak an event--so that, to naked and disbelieving eyes, it never happened.
They say they did it by interrupting the light flow in such a way that the light experiences a change of pace. The idea was to see whether they could change the pace of that light flow sufficiently for a security camera to have simply not registered that it had happened..."

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