Curtains are falling on the final chapter of the Harry Potter movie franchise, so it's time to hang up your invisibility cloak in the hall closet. But don't look so glum, there's a new cloak for your spatio-temporal wardrobe -- one that's sure to turn a few heads in the physics department.
NEWS: Invisibility Cloak Made From Silk
Moti Fridman and Alexander Gaeta, professors of applied and engineering physics at Cornell University, have developed a time cloak -- yes, a time cloak -- that, besides sounding like a Kurt Vonnegut trope, can also hide events in time.
Physicists have already found ways to make invisibility cloaks by distorting electromagnetic fields and steering light around a volume of space so that, essentially, anything inside this space is invisible.
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