Archive for May 2006
Cloaking device to become reality?
My girlfriend is a scientist. She also wants to be able to turn invisible. She sent me this today...
Light normally bounces off an object's surface making it visible to the human eye. But John Pendry and colleagues at Imperial College London, UK, have calculated that materials engineered to have abnormal optical properties, known as metamaterials, could make light pass around an object as so it appears as if it were not there at all.
Metamaterials are exotic composites made of electronic ...
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