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As if the idea of a device that makes an object seem invisible was not mind-boggling enough, researchers have now demonstrated a system that can conceal an event in time. See Letter p.62

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Figure 1: Schematics of the temporal cloaking system of Fridman and colleagues7 at different times.

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  1. Robert W. Boyd and Zhimin Shi are at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.,

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  2. R.W.B. is also in the Department of Physics and the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1A3, Canada.,

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Boyd, R., Shi, Z. How to hide in time. Nature 481, 35–36 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/481035a

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