Invisibility Cloak (1 Viewer)

[Dumsum]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23453957-2,00.html

AN "invisibility cloak" that could make people and objects see-through is being developed by Australian scientists.

Turning science fiction into reality, researchers from the Australian National University in Canberra have created a material that - when wrapped around a solid object - makes it appear transparent.

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The metamaterial is made up of "kind of artificial atoms".

"They are a million times bigger than a real atom, and what happens is that these artificial atoms do things that real atoms can't do.

"They can bend light in strange ways, and that's where the 'invisibility cloak' comes into it. It bends light around the object, rather than bouncing off it," Dr Powell said.

The result is that the light bypasses the "cloaked" object, hitting the scene behind it instead. This is why the background becomes visible, not the "invisible" object in the foreground.

UNSW should invest in some for the Applied Science building.

 

[Omium]

Sup the Americans are already using them.

That's why the WTC isn't visible anymawr.

lol,

 

[wuddie]

i can think of a whole heap of people who are deserving recepients of a free cloak.

eg. casey donovan.

 

[Zrap]

Lol of course an Australian scientists wants it made.
Spot on.

 

[Slidey]

Yeah a few of my friend are working on that.

 

[Dumsum]

Yeah a few of my friend are working on that.

Any details on the actual physics of it? The article is very lowest-common-denominator...

 

[A High Way Man]

I thought they were making a cloak with CONICAL NANOMIRRORS

 

[michael1990]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23453957-2,00.html


UNSW should invest in some for the Applied Science building.

THATS mad!

 

[Trampoline Man]

There's an invisible cloak story every few months, I won't believe any of this will come to anything of note until I'm standing next to Gemma Atkinson in the shower.

 

[Dumsum]

why should UNSW invest an invisibility cloak for the Applied Science building ??

Does it really need explaining?

 

[Slidey]

There's an invisible cloak story every few months, I won't believe any of this will come to anything of note until I'm standing next to Gemma Atkinson in the shower.

Most of them a true. You probably just didn't bother to read the details, such as radar invisibility, microwave invisibility, etc.

Nobody has claimed invisibility for the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

My friends were honours students working on various facets of this project. They were pretty excited about it, and the way they explained it to me seemed very scientifically feasible (it wasn't just theory).

 

[KFunk]

That's awesome. Though I must admit, I always get super-skeptical about articles posted around April 1st. Nonetheless, I'll trust Slidey's endorsement.

 

[Slidey]

That's awesome. Though I must admit, I always get super-skeptical about articles posted around April 1st. Nonetheless, I'll trust Slidey's endorsement.

Oh, the Harry Potter style invisibility cloak is probably a joke. The nature of the work however isn't.

http://wwwrsphysse.anu.edu.au/admin/php/highlights/ilya