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04-07-2007, 07:22 AM
| | |  Invisibility Cloak A Possibility
A group of scientists at Purdue University in Indiana (USA) have finally come up with a workable design for an invisibility cloak. Last year, scientists figured out a complex equation for making objects appear invisible by making light bend around them, but now they've managed to take it further...so much so that they may even be able to make objects as large as an aeroplane invisible! Quote:
"It looks pretty much like fiction, I do realise, but it's completely in agreement with the laws of physics," said lead researcher Vladimir Shalaev, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue.
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"Ideally, if we make it real it would work exactly like Harry Potter's invisibility cloak," he said. "It's not going to be heavy because there's going to be very little metal in it."
The still-theoretical design will be published this month in the journal Nature Photonics.
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04-07-2007, 08:34 PM
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| | Puffskein
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OMG OMG OMG! I can't believe this is finnaly happening! I am so happy!   | 
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04-07-2007, 08:38 PM
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| | Puffskein
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That is cool. Genius!!!
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04-07-2007, 09:03 PM
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OMG! I would so get one, but by the time they get it all fixed and if it ever goes on the market it will probably be like a zillion dollars. And Lissy isn't that rich.
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04-07-2007, 09:55 PM
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| | Billywig
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Personally, I don't think any good could possibly come of this invention. Think of all the things that people would do with them... Our right to privacy would be demolished. You would have more sexual predators than ever if it ever hit the market.
And again, I sincerely doubt that the government will let this invention out to the public. It's far too dangerous to market legally. I'm guessing that it will be a prime weapon for military and spy agencies. Never to the public. If that day comes, we'll see if we have any rights remaining. | |
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04-07-2007, 10:20 PM
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| | Romanian Longhorn
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I want oooone! 
__________________ I gotta go back to the muggle world,
they're gonna try and tell me this wasn't, that none of this happened,
but you know what? It was real. It did happen.
We spent time here. We made friends here. That's a part of us.
Cause Hogwarts is bigger than any of us, of any of it's founders,
and it's going to be around long after we're gone.
Maybe we'll see our kids come here one day.
That's the thing about Hogwarts.
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04-07-2007, 10:24 PM
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That's the coolest thing ever. I've always wondered if it was possible to have an invisibility cloak. Now I really really want one.
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04-07-2007, 10:43 PM
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|  !!!!Awesome!!!!Jobberknoll
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OHHHHH my God that would be so awesome!!!!
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04-07-2007, 10:50 PM
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| | Dugbog
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WOW! So amazing! If they can actually have invisibility claoks, I'd be the first to buy! That's really cool!
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04-07-2007, 11:22 PM
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When i was reading this i was for some reason waiting too hear april fools again as if april fools came back for one more day
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04-07-2007, 11:25 PM
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| | Horklump
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I would not like to kow the price and the things that people could do with it (too much horror)
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04-08-2007, 12:20 AM
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|  DD's Sorting HatPuffskein
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That's awesome I hope it happen's.
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04-08-2007, 01:03 AM
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| | Billywig
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That's so cool! I wish I were as smart as they are!!
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04-08-2007, 01:13 AM
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| Vair StalkerishMissing Sirius Mooncalf
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OMG!  That sounds amazing but I'd be scared to death if it landed in wrong hands... It sounds like a cool object but it could also be dangerous...  | |
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04-08-2007, 01:18 AM
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that would be amazazing
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04-08-2007, 02:11 AM
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That is insane!!
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04-08-2007, 02:18 AM
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Oh wow! That is amazing! Think of the possiblities...as cool as this is...wow...I didn't think that could ever be real!
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Kakkoi! I can't wait to see what it looks like. I applaud the hard working researchers that have worked to make this possible.
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04-08-2007, 03:47 AM
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OMG!!!!! I want 1 thats so so kool.
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04-08-2007, 05:01 AM
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OMG!! i still have the article from last year!!! JKR should feel great! one of her Harry Potter "inventions" are becoming reality!!! I want one *can we pre-order  *
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04-08-2007, 05:38 AM
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yay!!!!!!
i'm going to get one as soon as it is available!!
please,i hope they succeed in makin it*prays for them*
hey,but then.............it'll be used by the criminals and wrong people to do more horrible stuff,wont it??
So...i,guess they are not going to let anyone get it
wrong people are so bad...........they ruin all my fun!
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04-08-2007, 07:07 AM
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| | Firecrab
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i heard about this weeks ago, and i totally want to have one..
AND "they" have really rockin, off-the-hook brainpower to conjure something like this; which is formerly just fiction.
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Wow, this is simply unbelievable. Not to mention awesome and scary. Hehe. - shnuggles 'em scientists - | |
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04-08-2007, 09:03 AM
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| | Billywig
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yes I read abt it, will be the most awesome thing!
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04-08-2007, 07:28 PM
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| Letin' Loose Firecrab
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that's pretty clever, a little weird, they must have ALOT of free time
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04-08-2007, 08:27 PM
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| | Mooncalf
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That is SO neat. It's crazy how far technology has gone.
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