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Invisibility is no longer a myth! :o
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| EgosXII |
So they've managed to turn a paper clip invisible!
I don't think i'm exagerrating in saying cloking devices for people and vehicles are less than a few years away from hitting consumer markets!
probably the most sci-fi-becoming-reality news I've heard in a long long time! mad
http://www.theage.com.au/technology...0203-1af2g.html |
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| Trance Nutter |
hmmmmmm, now I read this paper a few days ago, and i'm 99.9% sure there was no paperclip involved.
What they did was use a mirror which was bent (well, inverted vee shaped actually, offset by 10 degrees from memory). When a laser was shone on it it would reflectoff as lasers do off angled mirrors.
They then put the calcite crystal on it and the mirror reflected as it it were flat.
The same was done with viewing an image in the mirror, put the calcite on it and it would reflect as if it were flat.
Basically they made a 3D object act 2D.
Now I'm not going to claim I fully understood the paper, but thats more or less what I got from it, and the experiments and results didn't really strike me as "cloaking" as a normal person would think of it. |
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| jenga |
They've been doing this stuff for lots of years and getting pretty close with big things like submarines. They use special coatings that bend light around them so the thing's not actually invisible but there's just a weird blur where it should be.
inb4nou |
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| ZeJayMan |
| If it bleeds, we can kill it. |
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| sensorium |
| Where's the paper clip? I didn't see it. |
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| gazelles |
| quote: | Originally posted by sensorium
Where's the paper clip? I didn't see it. |
it was wearing a cloak sensorium |
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| woscar |
This thread is useless without video.
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| netroM |
| quote: | Originally posted by ZeJayMan
If it bleeds, we can kill it. |
netroM likes this. |
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| KilldaDJ |
| kill it with fire |
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| Lunar Phase 7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by jenga
They've been doing this stuff for lots of years and getting pretty close with big things like submarines. They use special coatings that bend light around them so the thing's not actually invisible but there's just a weird blur where it should be.
inb4nou |
Source/example/evidence. |
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