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A New Dawn, The 4th Moon, Invisible Time, Electric Tadpoles, Spark of Life, High Schoolers With Rulers, A Tale Of Two Mice, UC Davis Monkey Pox, And Much More…
A New Dawn…
Hubble finds 4th moon around Plutp
Temporal Invisibility???
Electric tadpoles foretell future events.
The Spark of Life…
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High Schoolers With Rulers
A Tale of Two Mice…
UC Davis Primate Virus
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So so so glad you plugged “Honey badger don’t care!” Priceless.
Slowing Light
This is not as fancy as it sounds.
The speed of light, c, is a constant of nature.
A photon of light travels at c.
This photon will travel until it interacts with an atom.
This interaction takes a finite amount of time.
Imagine 2 atoms that play tennis with a photon, back and forth.
You get slow down from the atomic interactions, and also the zigzag path at speed c.
Peek-a-boo
The preprint does not describes a game of peek-a-boo.
It describes special instrument called a split time-lens (STL).
These lenses allow you hide an event from a probe without giving away evidence of the occlusion.
The region where the event takes place appears seems not to have been hidden from view!
The light you see from your probe (say, a flashlight) behaves as if the event never took place.
It just misses the event because its space-time path has been changed by the pair of STLs.
This works great in theory, but in practice, it isn’t possible.
There can exist no material that has the right refractive index for every wavelength of light.
So, for any given STL, there are wavelengths of light you can probe with that will “break” the cloak.
It might be handy for cloaking against one or two wavelengths, though.
Thine cloak cannot protect ye from my white light!
Time-traveling garbage
You seem to describe an object with it’s momentum unchanged.
That is to say, no (or, at least, net zero) forces acting upon it.
Yes, this object will fly off into space.
This has little to do with stopping time!
It’s basic Newtonian dynamics…
Then again, if you want to describe an effect where objects can be “ripped” from space-time…
This is a silly idea that defies the very definition of space-time and begs many questions:
Why does velocity exist outside space-time, while force does not? How is momentum conserved?
Is this a joke? It is a joke, right? Can you please tell me you’re joking?
Justin, you’re far too clever a comedian for me!
I can’t tell when you are joking apart from when you’ve just had a half-baked idea while being, yourself, fully baked.
Time-traveling Scientists
I understand that you are making a joke, but it’s worth briefly considering this one, too.
Let’s say a working time-machine is built, but kills the scientist who built it.
What about testing, and his/her friends and collaborators?
Surely she/he wouldn’t step into some machine unless he’d tested the effects with a camera-mounted robot!
Surely she/he hasn’t done this work alone, having told nobody!
Surely she/he didn’t conduct the first dangerous test without anyone there to witness!
Throughout the entire intro the phrase “you are using and unregistered version of sound booth” repeated in the background.