"Time Telescope" Could Boost Fibre-Optic Communications 183
An anonymous reader writes "A time lens can focus a chunk of time to a point, rather like a normal lens focuses light rays. Put two time lenses together and you can create what a Cornell University team calls a 'time domain telescope' which can magnify time. They sent a 2.5 nanosecond long light pulse, encoding 24 bits of information, into their time telescope. What came out on the other side was the same 24 bit pulse, but compressed into 92 picoseconds. Squashing more information into a light pulse could help to send more information via optical fibres."
Re:I think I saw a movie about this... (Score:5, Funny)
...Ben Affleck starred.
We're boned.
So you were the guy who saw it.
These future Slashdot comments are hilarious... (Score:4, Funny)
.. I should know since I read them 70 picoseconds ago using my time telescope.
Re:These future Slashdot comments are hilarious... (Score:1, Funny)
You forgot to start your comment with "Good news, everyone!"
Re:Time compression? (Score:2, Funny)
They've got attention, but they haven't conveyed any information.
They've conveyed the information, but it's encoded in the 24 bits of the light pulse
Ironic (Score:5, Funny)
Know what it would be good for? (Score:4, Funny)
I can think of a myriad of uses ..|||..|.||. eady using it for that.
Re:salesman speak (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh good! (Score:3, Funny)
Last Night
You Beer
Girl Hideous
You Horny
Taxi Ride
Whale Ride
Re:Deceptive Name (Score:1, Funny)
Too right.
The major disappointment that hit my face when i read it wasn't an actual time lens... that will permanently scar my face.
My kids in however many years time will ask me why i have a huge scar on my face and i will tell them about this very story.
Then they'll take out their actual time telescope and peer back to when i was typing this message, causing the universe to implode in to SCIENCE.
What happens when you combine them? (Score:5, Funny)
What happens when you take four Time Lenses and align them to be 90 degree angles to each other?
ONE MAN KNOWS THE TRUTH! [timecube.com]
Re:salesman speak (Score:3, Funny)
As it turns out, "part for the course" is "par for the course" when you hit one of the letters immediately adjacent to the "r".