Real Life Cloaking Device Gets Closer
The “cloaking device,” to use a Star Trek term, just got a step closer – news out of Germany shows that scientists successfully hid part of a piece of gold from the visible eye.
How? “Photonic crystals,” whatever those are, were used to bend the light waves around a small bump on a gold surface, rendering it invisible three dimensionally.
Not buying my line about photonic crystals? I know, I think they sound made up too. How about this: special lenses were used to bend light waves, suppressing light itself. For some reason that sounds more plausable, even though we’re talking about invisibility cloaks here.
The big question for perverts everywhere: how long until one of these babies can cloak a person? German scientists advise us not to hold our breath, saying it’d be “many years” before anything larger than one tiny piece of a very small thing could be cloaked. Still, the imagination reels!
Source & Photo Source: Christian Science Monitor
