Scientists can now make an object the size of a red blood cell invisible using metamaterials that are effective thoughout the full spectrum of light visible to the human eye...
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It's a very interesting concept - they've apparently been able to disguise a very small object from all angles and in all visible wavelengths. Their cloaking material has holes in it that affect the behavior of the light passing through it.
Not really impressed, I mean arent red blood cells "invisible" to the naked eye any way?
This would (I believe) also work if you were looking at it through a microscope. So yeah, impressive. This is the first proof of the concept they've been talking about for a while. Time and effort on the part of these scientists will give us the larger versions. It's exciting, in that it's a second major step on the path to a truly functional and useful invisibility cloak.
Yeah, it's not like the public will ever be allowed access to this tech.
Who knows. In the future, you'll probably see a game show where a heart sugeon has to perform surgery on a heart that has been made invisible. I'd watch. You know you would too.
Yeah, it's not like the public will ever be allowed access to this tech.
Eventually the public would, but that would likely once the public, or at least most businesses, can cheaply buy things to detect things using the cloak. Oh wait we have those. They're called infrared detectors. :P
Public likely wouldn't have it any time soon but they probably would eventually get it.
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You can see that they've been doing this since 2006.
