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THE ARROW OF TIME. "Why time should have a direction at all. In every day life it's pretty apparent that it does. If you look at a movie that's being played backwards, you know it immediately because most things have a distinct time direction attached to them: an arrow of time." https://lnkd.in/eafS82F View in LinkedIn

CATALAN biotech company Minoryx is backed by Roche and other investors. This is testament to the maturing biotech ecosystem in Catalonia, after a decade of investment to move into a Knowledge Economy by economy minister Dr. Andreu Mas Colell, the visionary that spawned hundreds of young companies and a center of Mediterranean science excellence. https://lnkd.in/ekWHHvA View in LinkedIn

EVENT CLOAKING. "Previously, a team led by Professor Sir John Pendry at Imperial College London showed that metamaterials could be used to make an optical invisibility cloak. Now, a team led by Professor Martin McCall has mathematically extended the idea of a cloak that conceals objects to one that conceals events." (2010). https://lnkd.in/epsXTGi View in LinkedIn

PICO-TIME HOLE. "They succeeded in creating a time hole in a fiber-optic cable lasting 50 picoseconds (trillionths of a second) in which events could be hidden." (Imperial College, funded in part by DARPA). https://lnkd.in/evp99bi View in LinkedIn

TWO SPEED LIMITS. "This approach is based on accelerating the front part of a probe light beam and slowing down its rear part to create a well controlled temporal gap — inside which an event occurs — such that the probe beam is not modified in any way by the event...The probe beam is then restored to its original form by the reverse manipulation of the dispersion.” (Imperial College). https://lnkd.in/evp99bi View in LinkedIn

ILLUSION OF A MATTER TRANSPORTER. “Although this sounds like science fiction, the lesson from metamaterials research in the last decade has taught us that, within certain restrictions, such speculations are not fantasy. We here show how the magic of editing history can be achieved by introducing the concept of the space-time cloak." (2010, Imperial College). https://lnkd.in/evp99bi View in LinkedIn

"PERFECT INVISIBILITY CLOAKS require the constitutive materials with extreme properties such as anisotropy, inhomogeneity, singular dielectric parameters, or even negative index of refraction, which challenge the current fabricating technologies, specifically in optical frequencies." https://lnkd.in/e7eyJgs View in LinkedIn

CLOAKING TIME. "In the “Star Trek” saga, the United Federation of Planets never figured out the cloaking technology that allowed Romulan warships to pop in and out of Federation space without being detected. But 21st-century Earth scientists are working with ways to bend light and time to achieve the same effects." https://lnkd.in/evp99bi View in LinkedIn

GIVEN HOW DIFFICULT TIME IS for physicists to explain, and what a cloud of unresolved issues remain, is is more than a little audacious that current metamaterial scientists thought that they could fool with time. But that is exactly what they did with cloaking experiments. View in LinkedIn

MINORYX THERAPEUTICS, €19.4 M Series A financing round. https://lnkd.in/eYciPqH View in LinkedIn