http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...132627.htm
I don't understand too much physics, but I think the concept is to create waves around the object to mask the waves the object is creating. It works with radiowaves now and they're saying one day it'll work with light waves, which shouldn't be too difficult, right? It's just a different wavelength ..? Would be great if someone who knows more about these things could share their educated guess/opinions
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(Besides the obvious reasons, I really hope this works so I can say I graduated from the school that invented the invisibility cloak)
Quote:Beyond obvious applications, such as hiding military vehicles or conducting surveillance operations, this cloaking technology could eliminate obstacles -- for example, structures interrupting signals from cellular base stations could be cloaked to allow signals to pass by freely. The system can also alter the signature of a cloaked object, making it appear bigger, smaller, or even shifting it in space. And though their tests showed the cloaking system works with radio waves, re-tuning it to work with Terahertz (T-rays) or light waves could use the same principle as the necessary antenna technology matures.
"There are more applications for radio than for light," says Eleftheriades. "It's just a matter of technology -- you can use the same principle for light, and the corresponding antenna technology is a very hot area of research."
I don't understand too much physics, but I think the concept is to create waves around the object to mask the waves the object is creating. It works with radiowaves now and they're saying one day it'll work with light waves, which shouldn't be too difficult, right? It's just a different wavelength ..? Would be great if someone who knows more about these things could share their educated guess/opinions
.(Besides the obvious reasons, I really hope this works so I can say I graduated from the school that invented the invisibility cloak)
