I can see nothing but bad coming from this. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Kelwyn <ravena...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100318/ap_on_sc/us_sci_cloak_of_invisibility > > Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward > > By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer – Thu Mar 18, 4:05 pm ET > > WASHINGTON – 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. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Post your SciFiNoir Profile at > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! > Groups Links > > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
