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Fridman and pals have clearly made themselves an interesting toy but they modestly refrain from speculating about the applications for their time cloak.Comment:
They may be too modest, but not I. If you can prevent the recording of events, isn't that tantamount to "stopping the clock"? If you can stop the clock and if you can still traverse space, your speed can be infinite. It's like dividing by zero. It can be a freakin' warp drive.
But that is just wild speculation. There's probably a catch in there somewhere.
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I'm going to do more reading about this and continue to update this claim through the day.
This National Geographic story makes it look more like light shifting than time bending.
This physorg.com story leaves me with the impression that it is just an illusion:
The result is light emerging from the end of the cable that appears to be unaltered
If time was bent, then the light would be altered. If the light is not altered, then whatever happens to the light, happens inside the device. The device only prevents the observation of the event, as opposed to the event itself. How then can it be said that time is altered? I don't get it.
I think I've seen enough. Here's is what you can do: Just measure the speed that the light travels. The possibilities are: slower light speed, the same light speed, or faster light speed. My guess is that it is slower light speed. The lag is in the middle where speed of light is decelerated, and then sped up again. However, the time lost in the lag cannot be made up. Therefore, the speed of the light at the end is slower than the usual speed. Time is not bent, only the light waves.
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