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Invisibility: a first draft
" ... They could keep an ugly building -- say a coal plant -- from spoiling a beautiful view. Other sorts of cloaks could deflect destructive seismic waves or dangerous radiation from buildings"
"People are beginning to think differently."
- David Schurig, Duke University physicist
"People are beginning to think differently."
- David Schurig, Duke University physicist
Durham, North Carolina, USA - Ever wish to slip unseen into forbidden places the way Harry Potter does under his invisibility cloak? Or to materialize with no warning like Romulan warships in a Star Trek universe? Now scientists at Duke University and Imperial College in London say such dreams are nearly within reach.
Working with Sir John Pendry in London, Smith and fellow Duke physicist David Schurig envision new materials that could bend light around an object, creating the illusion that the object isn't there.