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Talking Invisibility cloak 'step closer'

Scientists in the US say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people invisible.
Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley have developed a material that can bend light around 3D objects making them "disappear".
The materials do not occur naturally but have been created on a nano scale, measured in billionths of a metre. The team says the principles could one day be scaled up to make invisibility cloaks large enough to hide people.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Invisibility cloak 'step closer'


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Old 11-08-2008, 09:09
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Scientists in the US say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people invisible.
Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley have developed a material that can bend light around 3D objects making them "disappear".
The materials do not occur naturally but have been created on a nano scale, measured in billionths of a metre. The team says the principles could one day be scaled up to make invisibility cloaks large enough to hide people.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Invisibility cloak 'step closer'


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Default Re: Invisibility cloak 'step closer'

But not big enough for a full scale one of these?
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This is the next problem to be solved.
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Old 11-08-2008, 18:18
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Default Re: Invisibility cloak 'step closer'

Walk backward.............sorted
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