8 Times Science Did The Impossible

1. Time Invisibility

Whilst some scientists might be raining on our parades with regards to invisibility cloaks (yeah, apparently you'll never get your Harry Potter cloak, but whatever), scientists have figured a way of hiding events from time instead. Gotta love scientists.

Based on the way invisibility cloaks bend light around an object to render it invisible in space, the "Time Cloak" creates a hole in time, making it seem as though an event never occurred.

Researchers found a way of splitting a light beam and diverting it through a medium before putting it back together at the other end with a time lens, with no record of what went on in between. The lens speeds up and slows down the beams, creating a time vacuum in the middle in which events can be masked.

This kind of technology could be used to send uncrackable, encoded data that would be impossible to intercept. That's if we don't rip a hole in the spacetime continuum and find The Doctor climbing out of it first.

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