# Scientist messin with time

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientist-messin-with-time/608511>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 5, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientist-messin-with-time/608511 "2012-01-05T15:02:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientist-messin-with-time/608511/1 "2012-01-05T15:02:55Z")

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Scientists have created a “time mask” or time skipper or time cloaker or sumptin. I haven’t quite wrapped my head around what it actually means. Maybe we will hear some better explainations and analogies later.  
[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45877504/ns/technology\_and\_science-innovation/t/scientists-create-time-cloak-masks-entire-event/](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45877504/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/scientists-create-time-cloak-masks-entire-event/)

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**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientist-messin-with-time/608511/2 "2012-01-05T15:35:36Z")

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This is a good example of why scientists ought to write science articles. The experiment actually performed did not have any relationship at all to the examples the writer gave of invisible art thieves and other such nonsense.