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Scientists close to Potter-style 'invisibility cloak'
ABC.Net ^ | 4-6-2007 | staff writer

Posted on 04/06/2007 9:53:30 AM PDT by bedolido

Scientists say they have finally come up with a workable design for an invisibility cloak.

Physicists figured out the complex mathematical equations for making objects invisible by bending light around them last year.

Now a group of engineers at Purdue University in Indiana have used those calculations to design a relatively simple device that ought to be able to - one day soon - make objects as big as an aeroplane simply disappear.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; Technical
KEYWORDS: cloak; invisibility; potterstyle; scientists
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To: Waverunner
What about Green Rigelian women?
21 posted on 04/06/2007 10:16:41 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Close?

LOL...

Great concept... but “close”? No Way.


22 posted on 04/06/2007 10:18:18 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: bedolido

I had one of those cloaks...but I dropped it two years ago, and can’t find it anywhere...


23 posted on 04/06/2007 10:18:38 AM PDT by FrankR (Fred Thompson...America's best great hope.....)
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To: bedolido
Totally irrelevant ... Dr. Quest and Race Bannon will simply strap on their jet packs and drop paint filled baggies on these so-called invisible planes.
24 posted on 04/06/2007 10:19:06 AM PDT by dartuser ("If you torture the data long enough, it will confess, even to crimes it did not commit")
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To: massgopguy

Love the way they dance.


25 posted on 04/06/2007 10:21:31 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: dartuser

Or Thunderbolt the Wonder Colt would have raced around them so fast as to cause dust so give them away...


26 posted on 04/06/2007 10:23:15 AM PDT by bedolido (I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
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To: bedolido

I could shield a spacecraft from x-rays and gamma rays.


27 posted on 04/06/2007 10:28:49 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: secretagent

I’ve not seen it several times lately.


28 posted on 04/06/2007 10:29:28 AM PDT by irishtenor (Save the whales. Collect the whole set.)
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To: AppyPappy

My wife says I have one that bends sounds waves, because I never hear what she says.


29 posted on 04/06/2007 10:32:58 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: DogBarkTree

I doubt she spit, I think she swallowed. (OK OK I know thats bad but she is from San Francisco)


30 posted on 04/06/2007 10:33:28 AM PDT by aft_lizard (born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
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To: bedolido

Right, I never did learn the language.


31 posted on 04/06/2007 10:34:01 AM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: bedolido

Capt. Kirk stole it and the Romulan lady Capt.


32 posted on 04/06/2007 10:36:19 AM PDT by crazyhorse691 (The faithful will keep their heads down, their powder dry and hammer at the enemies flanks.)
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To: GeorgefromGeorgia

I tried to learn the language and kept spitting on my teacher... eventually he took his sword-thingy and came after me... I was killed in the fight but later reconstituted on planet Alderon with Anijin Skywalker.


33 posted on 04/06/2007 10:36:47 AM PDT by bedolido (I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
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To: Reaganesque
I could shield a spacecraft from x-rays and gamma rays.

That sounds fantastic. It's just the thing for NASA. But being invisible is better. If anyone diagrees with me, they can flame on.

34 posted on 04/06/2007 10:38:05 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: bedolido
We can sell that technology to the Chinese for campaign contributions that will make us a shoe-in in '08.


35 posted on 04/06/2007 10:43:22 AM PDT by GunnyHartman (Proud Infidel)
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To: irishtenor

I can see how you don’t see it that way.


36 posted on 04/06/2007 10:45:20 AM PDT by secretagent
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To: secretagent

:^)


37 posted on 04/06/2007 10:46:49 AM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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To: bedolido

I’ll take one mother-in-law XL and one nosy-neighbor XXXL.


38 posted on 04/06/2007 10:47:23 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: bedolido
Think of the possibilities for the burka business. All you’d see coming down the street is two eyes. WOW! I like it. There are many, many days, especially when child was younger, that I would have loved to have had a cloaking device. “Mommy, Mommy, where are you?!” Just then a voice out of nowhere says, “I told you no cookies before supper!” Kid immediately puts the lid back on the cookie jar and says, “Okay, God.” So many possibilities.
39 posted on 04/06/2007 11:16:03 AM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: bedolido
Hillary couldn't get invisible fast enough.
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40 posted on 04/06/2007 11:29:27 AM PDT by Rick_Michael (Fred Thompson)
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