Physicists claim development of invisibility technology

[Elmore Furth]

Watch out Voldemort!

New research from a team of Scottish physicists has made invisibility technology feasible, something that you'll have to not see to believe.

This breakthrough technology, dubbed "Metaflex," uses atoms that bend light to make a flexible material that would, in theory, be invisible to the human eye, according to a paper published Thursday in the New Journal of Physics.

Thomas Krauss, professor of optoelectronics at the University of St. Andrews and one of the authors of the paper, said that while the immediate focus is on using the technology to create advanced contact lenses that would give the wearer perfect vision, he doesn't reject the possibility of its application for cloaking technology.



Physicists claim development of invisibility technology
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[Drale]

1. O nos

here comes the romulans lol

[Mnemosyne]

2. At least with a suit there would be no embarrassing naked in public moments. Very cool. n/t

[bluedigger]

3. They've been developing it for awhile now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zekiZYSVdeQ

[Occulus]

4. Was going to say that earlier and forgot

I do have to wonder what sort of practical applications this would have that weren't military. Would people really fly in a plane which, on the inside, showed only the seats and aisles, with all else being invisible?

Would people fly in what appeared, to the eye, to be a flying platform in the sky from the inside? I doubt it.

Now, military applications? Intelligence applications? They will want this immediately.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Wouldn't Alien observers already have this technology?

If there were Aliens?

Anyway fascinating science.

[gtar100]

6. So there really are aliens among us. We just can't see them.

Time for paranoia. :hide:

[Eddie Haskell]

7. Hello

Nice to see you.