This is pretty cool.
On Jan. 4th, 2012, Elizabeth Lopatto reported for Bloomberg on a new scientific advancement out of Upstate New York. According to the article, researchers from Cornell have managed to create a pocket of time by manipulating beams of light. The pocket is only a few trillionths of a second. I'd recommend checking out the article for a better explanation of the experiment…
But it probably looked something like this.
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Moreover, this new research has cyber applications. The article notes that the experiment used fiber-optic cables. Computer data travels down fiber-optic cables. According to the article, the NSA or CIA could potentially use these pockets of time "to sneek looks at computer data without being detected."
The source article can be found here.
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