<story><title>First Demonstration Of Time Cloaking</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26992/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>redthrowaway</author><text>These articles always remind me of how prescient Star Trek was when it came to technology, and how we really don&apos;t have anything like that these days.  The last big SciFi show, Battlestar Galactica, seemed to go out of its way to avoid making any bold tech predictions, and the Star Trek franchise seems to have fizzled out (that movie doesn&apos;t count).  ST:TOS predicted cloaks just &lt;i&gt;six years&lt;/i&gt; after the first &lt;i&gt;laser&lt;/i&gt; was ever fired, and 3 years before development began on UNIX.  Holograms took until TNG, but they were still a good 20 years early.&lt;p&gt;I feel like we&apos;re getting ripped off.  I want radical predictions that I can watch daytime specials on Discovery about in 50 years.</text></comment>
<story><title>First Demonstration Of Time Cloaking</title><url>http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26992/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>I&apos;m still trying to get my head around this. To the layman, it sounds almost like something trivial (properties of metamaterials) extrapolated into a bit of a sensationalist headline.&lt;p&gt;So I go grab my good friend Schrödinger. We take his cat, subject of numerous cruel and unusual experiments, and stick it in a box. We tie the health of the cat to a quantum state which could condense either way. If it goes one way, the cat lives. If it goes the other way, the cat dies. Then we wrap the quantum state in these time-cloaking lenses.&lt;p&gt;We look at the cat, and what? Does the lack of ability to observe the quantum state mean that the condensation of probabilities never happened? Perhaps the cat disappears?&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Link for those who don&apos;t get the reference. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dingers_cat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dingers_cat&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>