Cloak of Invisibility becoming possible?

[JoshJayK 16,648]

Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward

 

From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.

 

Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology report they were able to cloak a tiny bump in a layer of gold, preventing its detection at nearly visible infrared frequencies.

 

Their cloaking device also worked in three dimensions, while previously developed cloaks worked in two dimensions, lead researcher Tolga Ergin said.

 

The cloak is a structure of crystals with air spaces in between, sort of like a woodpile, that bends light, hiding the bump in the gold later beneath, the researchers reported in Thursday's online edition of the journal Science.

 

In this case, the bump was tiny, a mere 0.00004 inch high and 0.0005 inch across, so that a magnifying lens was needed to see it.

 

Source(s): http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100318/ap_on_...of_invisibility

 

Amazing isn't it?

Where would you go if you were invisible?

[Jordanv78 20]

Im not really that impressed right now. If and when they can actually cloak something that is visible with the naked eye, then I will start getting impressed.

[JoshJayK 16,648]

Well they say that it can easily be blown up to a larger scale.

[GhoztMan 219]

That'd be pretty cool, but if it DID become a reality, I predict crime rates to go up very, very high. :P

[Zar 696]

This is just a "cover up." (get it hehe)

 

Sweet you can cover a 0.00004 inch high and 0.0005 inch across, bump of gold!

[Ruler of War 169]

Sweet now zar can cloak his extremely small penis and all the females will be like * :P *

[Speedskater 167]

ha nice one ruler

[JoshJayK 16,648]

LOL.

If it does become possible, I doubt it'd become public.

 

VIP hack only.

[Zar 696]

Sweet now zar can cloak his extremely small penis and all the females will be like * :o *

:blush2:

[GhoztMan 219]

You know it's true. ;)

[veeber 0]

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Edited May 28, 2010 by veeber