{"id":160351,"date":"2023-03-15T18:24:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-confirm-the-incredible-existence-of-time-reflections"},"modified":"2023-03-15T18:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:24:58","slug":"scientists-confirm-the-incredible-existence-of-time-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-confirm-the-incredible-existence-of-time-reflections","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of Time Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-confirm-the-incredible-existence-of-time-reflections.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very difficult to change the properties of a medium quick enough, uniformly, and with enough contrast to time reflect electromagnetic signals because they oscillate very fast,\u201d Gengyu Xu, a co-author and post-doc student at CUNY ASRC, said in a press statement. \u201cOur idea was to avoid changing the properties of the host material, and instead create a metamaterial in which additional elements can be abruptly added or subtracted through fast switches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This time reflection also behaves differently than spatial reflections. Because this time echo reflects that last part of the signal first, the researchers say that if you looked in a <em>time<\/em> mirror, you would see your back instead of your face. To translate the experience acoustically, it\u2019d be like listening to a tape on rewind\u2014which is to say fast and high-pitched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is very difficult to change the properties of a medium quick enough, uniformly, and with enough contrast to time reflect electromagnetic signals because they oscillate very fast,\u201d Gengyu Xu, a co-author and post-doc student at CUNY ASRC, said in a press statement. \u201cOur idea was to avoid changing the properties of the host material, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}