Scientists have figured out how to make entire events disappear

January 4, 2012 | Jolie O'Dell

nvisibility: It’s not just for fictional magicians anymore.

Scientists at the Pentagon have just published some fascinating (understatement) research on“temporal cloaking”.

As the team noted in Nature,

“To achieve spatial cloaking, the index of refraction is manipulated to flow light from a probe around an object in such a way that a ‘hole’ in space is created, and the object remains hidden. Alternatively, it may be desirable to cloak the occurrence of an event over a finite time period, and the idea of temporal cloaking has been proposed in which the dispersion of the material is manipulated in time, producing a ‘time hole’ in the probe beam to hide the occurrence of the event from the observer.”

Translated into lay-nerd terms, these scientists figured that light allows us to see objects, so to make an object or event invisible, all you have to do is keep the light from hitting it (a key component of other existing invisibility technology). And to keep it invisible for a period of time, you have to speed up the front end of a beam of light while slowing down the back end, creating a gap.

And these blessed souls have found a way to do precisely that.

Here’s a look at how the experiments went down:

Don’t expect to see invisibility “time holes” in your corner Army Navy surplus store any time soon, though. The experiments occurred inside a fiber-optic cable over the course of a few picoseconds. Still, the team noted in its conclusions, “These results are a significant step towards the development of full spatio-temporal cloaking.”

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Web Companies Are Willing To Go Dark In Protest Of SOPA / The Running Man

By Dylan Love, Business Insider


The Stop Online Piracy Act is so polarizing in the tech world that huge web companies like Amazon, eBay, Facebook, and Google are considering going dark in order to spread awareness, reports ExtremeTech.
Imagine going to Google.com to do a search only to find some explanatory text on what SOPA is and how to call Congress to voice your opinion on it.

There's no plan on when the blackout would occur, but January 23 looks like the most likely date given that Congress is scheduled to debate SOPA on January 24.


ExtremeTech shares the full list of companies that may participate in the blackout. Again, consider what the Internet would be like without access to any of these companies' services:

AOL
eBay
Etsy
Facebook
Foursquare
Google
IAC
LinkedIn
Mozilla
OpenDNS
PayPal
Twitter
Wikimedia Foundation
Yahoo!
Zynga

See the following video to have an idea of what the world would become if the government succeed with the media censorship:

Brains Are Injured By Fat Consumption / Dangers of meat, milk & eggs

In Life by Jeffery Racheff .- Binge On Fat, Bruise Your Brain.

Your stomach may be craving that lard-filled cheesecake, but your brain is bracing for impact. A new study reveals that a continuous consumption of fatty food can cause trauma to your brain.

A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation reveals that "hypothalamic neuron injury" is caused after humans eat a high-fat diet. And if the diet is continued, our brain's hypothalamus can begin to show inflammation and structural damage.

Not a good sign, especially considering the fact that the hypothalamus is the part of the brain that controls the body's metabolism.

Researchers believe a damaged hypothalamus may play a big part in the difficulty for an overweight person to keep the body fat off.

"Obese individuals are biologically defending their elevated body weight," says Dr. Michael Schwartz, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington and lead researcher on the study.

Schwartz added that the findings show "solid evidence of a change affecting the key hypothalamic area for body weight control with the potential to explain the problem."

Though the study makes headway on the causes of obesity, researchers say it is far from conclusive. Rodents with strains not as susceptible to diet-induced obesity were not tested, for example.

Either way, it's probably best to take a break from the fast food for awhile. Your brain needs to nurse it's bruises.

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Wikipedia fundraiser ends with $20M in the bank

San Francisco, CA -- January 2, 2012 - The Wikimedia Foundation’s annual fundraising campaign reached a successful conclusion today, having raised a record-breaking USD 20 million from more than one million donors in nearly every country in the world. It is the Wikimedia Foundation’s most successful campaign ever, continuing an unbroken streak in which donations have risen every year since the campaigns began in 2003.

Wikimedia websites serve more than 470 million people every month. It is the only major website supported not by advertising, but by donations from readers.

“Our model is working fantastically well,” said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. “Ordinary people use Wikipedia and they like it, so they chip in some cash so it will continue to thrive. That maintains our independence and lets us focus solely on providing a useful public service. I am so grateful to our donors for making that possible. I promise them we will use their money carefully and well.”

Since 2008, the number of Wikimedia Foundation donors has increased ten-fold, and the total dollar amount raised in the campaign has risen to over $20 million from $4.5 million.

The annual fundraiser is how the Wikimedia Foundation pays its bills. Funds raised in this campaign will be used to buy and install servers and other hardware, to develop new site functionality, expand mobile services, provide legal defense for the projects, and support the large global community of Wikimedia volunteers. The Wikimedia Foundation's total 2011-12 planned spending is 28.3 million USD. The bulk of that is raised during the annual campaign, and the remainder comes throughout the year in the form of grants from institutions such as the Sloan Foundation, and many other small donations year round.

This year’s campaign highlighted the volunteers who help to create Wikipedia. It featured testimonials from volunteer editors in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, India, Kenya, the United Kingdom and the United States ranging in age from 18 to 76, explaining why they edit Wikipedia and why they think readers should support the Wikimedia Foundation. More than 100 volunteers translated the banners and appeals into dozens of languages, reaching hundreds of millions of people.

This video explains how wikipedia works and why the first 1999 version failed:

Mount Rainier National Park closed; manhunt on for gunman who killed ranger / MK Ultra

(AP) - A massive manhunt is under way in snow-covered Mount Rainier National Park as an estimated 150 officers from a variety of police agencies seek a gunman who shot and killed park ranger Margaret Anderson Sunday morning.  Early Monday morning, police began escorting about 125 park visitors off the mountain, after they had been quarantined in the park’s primary visitor center after the shooting, which occurred at about 10:20 a.m. Sunday, local time. “All known civilians” have been evacuated, Washington State Patrol spokesman Richard Warren told CNN.

The search for the gunman continued overnight using helicopters with infrared cameras and aircraft armed with flares. Officers from the National Park Service, Washington State Patrol, the FBI, and local agencies are involved in the search, a Park Service statement said. The shooter is believed to still be in the park, which will remain closed Monday.

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NASA probe joins twin at moon on 2012 New Year's Day / Universe Is a Holographic Projection around the Earth

PASADENA, Calif. -- The second of NASA's two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft has successfully completed its planned main engine burn and is now in lunar orbit. Working together, GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B will study the moon as never before.

"NASA greets the new year with a new mission of exploration," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. "The twin GRAIL spacecraft will vastly expand our knowledge of our moon and the evolution of our own planet. We begin this year reminding people around the world that NASA does big, bold things in order to reach for new heights and reveal the unknown."

However, there is scientific evidence that the entire universe is a holographic projection around the Earth.


German scientists have been trying to understand why their equipment that measures gravitational waves has been picking up a particular sound. One possible answer that they’ve come up with is that the entire universe is a holographic illusion:

For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it.

 According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time – the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into “grains”, just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. “It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time,” says Hogan.

If this doesn’t blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab’s Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: “If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram.”

The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing.

It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.

The holograms you find on credit cards and banknotes are etched on two-dimensional plastic films. When light bounces off them, it recreates the appearance of a 3D image.

In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel prizewinner Gerard ‘t Hooft suggested that the same principle might apply to the universe as a whole. Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.

Sources:
http://m.neatorama.com
http://www.nasa.gov/

LG OLED TV To Be Unveiled At CES / How OLED is made

(AP) — For flat-panel TVs, the choice for years has been between plasma and LCD. In the coming year, there'll be another choice, at least for those prepared to spend big.

LG Electronics Inc. says it's planning to sell a 55-inch set based on organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs. The Korean company is set to show it off at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which starts Jan. 10.

Samsung Electronics Co., LG's Korean rival, will also reveal a nearly market-ready OLED TV at the show, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. They spoke on condition of anonymity because Samsung has yet to make an announcement. Its website says CES announcements will come Jan. 9.

Tim Alessi, director of home electronics development at LG's USA arm, said its set will likely go on sale in the fourth quarter. The company isn't revealing the price.

Paul Gagnon, an analyst at DisplaySearch, estimates that OLED sets will start out above $5,000.

The screen technology is in use in high-end smartphones and provides deeply saturated colors and high contrast. However, it's been very difficult to make larger screens with consistent results. In late 2007, Sony Corp. started selling an 11-inch OLED TV for about $2,500, but it never followed it up with a bigger model.

Since then, LG and Samsung have shown prototype OLED TVs at the annual CES show, but haven't revealed any marketing plans.

If you are interested how this new technology works see the following video: