Invisibility breakthrough

twistedsoul

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57366625/invisibility-breakthrough-reported/

If you were invisible what would you get up to ?

kraggy

twistedsoul wrote: »

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57366625/invisibility-breakthrough-reported/

If you were invisible what would you get up to ?

At least 90. Maybe 95.

Kidchameleon

Its feckin usesless you have to be made of copper... Perhaps the guards would find use?

AskMyChocolate

twistedsoul wrote: »

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57366625/invisibility-breakthrough-reported/

If you were invisible what would you get up to ?

The sound of Liz Hurley showering.

Hank_Jones

I'd do the same thing as God does, watch women undress.

Guill

Reduced Microwave reflection does not an invisibilty cloak make.

jimthemental

I'd make stuff look like it's levitating on the alter during mass.

Lanaier

so cool.

Here's a picture of the technique in action:

























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TeddyTedson

I'd walk through walls :cool:

RachaelVO

QUOTE THE ARTICLE...

People who link to articles starting a thread, and don't quote them should be flipping banned.

(Livescience.com) It may not be a cape of magical, silvery material, but it's still an invisibility cloak. A tube made of an insulating material striped with long, thin strips of copper makes objects within it invisible to microwaves. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin reported their cloaking chamber Jan. 25 in the New Journal of Physics.
Different lab groups have been trying to cloak objects from light waves and microwaves for years. Previous efforts rendered objects invisible along a plane, in two dimensions, by bending microwaves around the objects. Last year researchers demonstrated an invisibility cloak that worked in three dimensions, concealing a bump on a reflective surface.

This newest cloak makes three-dimensional objects invisible without using reflective surfaces or specialized microwave chambers. "We don't need mirrors, we don't need waveguides, we just built a cloak with a cover around an object," said Andrea Alù, an engineer at Texas-Austin who led the research.

The cloak makes objects invisible to microwaves from all angles, Alù and his colleagues found. They aimed microwaves at an 18-centimeter-long cylinder, fitted inside the invisibility chamber, from different angles. They found reduced microwave reflection from the cylinder no matter where they observed it.

Objects reflect light and other electromagnetic waves when they're just sitting around. That's how your eyes can see them and how devices such as radar detectors can sense airplanes and ships. Alù's cloak works by reflecting electromagnetic waves in a way that cancels out the waves that the object reflects. "It's kind of an interference between the two," he told InnovationNewsDaily. "The combination of the two becomes invisible."

The secret to the cloak's exactly canceling waves is a "metamaterial," a man-made material that doesn't appear in nature and that has, as one paper put it, "exotic electromagnetic properties." Alù first published his ideas for how to make an invisibility cloak using this canceling metamaterial in 2005 and has been working on the idea ever since.

Of course, the cylinder he cloaked in this latest study is still visible to the naked eye, which detects light waves, not microwaves. He said his technique works best with objects of comparable size to the wavelengths they're trying to hide from. Thus cigar-size cylinders are well masked from microwaves, which can be several centimeters long, while microscopic objects are best masked from visible light waves. So Alù's metamaterials can't be used to cover certain boy wizards or anybody else, he said. "You can't use this to cloak a human body or a large object to visible light." He's working on creating a material that will cloak a microscopic object from visible light, which would be useful for machines that take microscopic photos.

As for the cloak he's already made, Alù thinks it would work well for stealth operations. "But it's superior to stealth, because stealth cancels the reflection but not the shadow of an object," he said.

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galwayrush

Move along now, nothing to see here !

twistedsoul

RachaelVO wrote: »

QUOTE THE ARTICLE...

People who link to articles starting a thread, and don't quote them should be flipping banned.

no need to get your knickers in a twist its not the end of the world

CardBordWindow

Ninja

DB21

I sincerely hope the scientists motives for this gadget are transparent.

Nervous Wreck

twistedsoul wrote: »

no need to get your knickers in a twist its not the end of the world

You made your punctuation invisible! Clever.

RachaelVO

twistedsoul wrote: »

no need to get your knickers in a twist its not the end of the world

Yeah there is!

TheZohanS

twistedsoul wrote: »

no need to get your knickers in a twist its not the end of the world

NB: If you do post a link to a news story please include the text from the link in your post. This makes the thread flow easier as it's annoying when somebody simply posts a link. It's particularly annoying for mobile users too.

Read the Charter.

foxyboxer

Invisibility?

I've been proving it exists in Nightclubs for years!

Snowie

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I'd walk through walls :cool:

no you wouldn't... you probably spend half your time falling threw the earth....

Mr.Crinklewood

Stand at the urinals, turn to the person to my left and....blast them with piss.....turn to the person to my right and see what happens.

Nothingbetter2d

twistedsoul wrote: »

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57366625/invisibility-breakthrough-reported/

If you were invisible what would you get up to ?

i'd sneak in and ninja shag your mom

Capt'n Midnight

microwaves = radar

by not reflecting it means the object is now darker than the background

kinda like wearing a cape made out of priests socks and expecting no one to see you

the real trick is making yourself the came colour as the background , like those planes in WWII with lights along the wings

Oh yeah the Brits have sussed out infra-red , they have stuff that is thermally invisible at a distance

though in fairness to the yanks this could stop you getting a speeding ticket if the Guard has a hair dryer

Lanaier

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

the real trick is making yourself the came colour

I make myself that colour all the time.
Doing Science!

Ledger

What would I do?


You really need to ask?


Really??


:pac:

Captain Darling

Why would you want to hide from a kitchen appliance?

soap1978

Lanaier wrote: »

so cool.

Here's a picture of the technique in action:


















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Nothingbetter2d

soap1978 wrote: »

pic never loaded for me

haha you got trolled

Lanaier

soap1978 wrote: »

pic never loaded for me

'fraid I can't see what you're talking about soap.

soap1978

yes still cant see it,what the hell so want to see it:)

WoollyRedHat

I'd sneak into the forbidden section in the library and find out who Nicolas Flammel is, obviously

Or I'd go to a rugby match and just as the ball is placed for the kicker to take it, I would knock it the other way, they wouldn't know what the **** to think

Somnus

soap1978 wrote: »

pic never loaded for me

http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/attachments/non-pentax-cameras-canon-nikon-etc/105933d1318406142-fuji-evil-pro-thats-joke-1305040347784.jpg

stupidusername

foxyboxer wrote: »

Invisibility?

I've been proving it exists in Nightclubs for years!

awh poor ickle man, did the big bad women not fancy you?

soap1978 wrote: »

yes still cant see it,what the hell so want to see it:)

teehee

Deus Ex Machina

If I were a scientist working on invisibility I would make the same joke with my colleagues every single day: call them and say I had just made an enormous breakthrough and when they rushed to my lab I would point at the empty desk and say there it is

Riddle101

Sometimes I think science goes to far. I mean does the Human race deserve Invisibility. Too much power can corrupt people and I wouldn't trust a single person to use it responsibly.

That being said, if I could turn invisible, I'd use it for good first. Helping to stop crimes and doing heroic things. But in the end, I get deeper into it and go power mad. Robbing houses, Watching women shower and undress and sneaking into high security facilities and doing something illegal.

Kev.OC

I'd follow the cast and crew for one of those "Ghost Hunter" programmes and mess with them.

44leto

Another idea plagiarized from Star Trek, this device will have some great applications in the practicable joke and pervert industries, I cant wait.


Nature does it well, I think this is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS-USrwuUfA

My name is URL

I'd fling cats at people

MadYaker

That video is really cool.