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| | Harry Potter News Latest news and rumors about the Harry Potter world! | 
04-07-2007, 08:22 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, 08:25 AM
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That is so amazing!!! -pets their brilliant minds- That really is unbelievable.  The human mind is an amazing thing.  | 
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04-07-2007, 08:27 AM
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WHOA I WANT ONE ~blink~ to help me sneakout
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Wow!!!  I heard it a couple of weeks ago in my place newspaper but did not take it serious.Now i do 
Hope it should come out successful *prays* 
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Woah that's awesome! I thought an invisibility cloak was another amazing invention that would only work in the world of Harry Potter and in our minds. Never imagined it could be produced in real life!
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04-07-2007, 09:32 AM
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Oh wow. Thats kinda cool!
Kinda scary too though..  ,
you could just be walking and then you'd fall and have a headache because you've just run into an invisible plane.   Okay. Ignore me.
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NO WAY! That's awesome! Science is really moving nowadays
In a few years, maybe they'll be selling in stores  That'd be awesome, I'd so buy one...
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Wow thats a amazing what humans can do in the 21st century. but if it got into the wrong hands to could be a dangerous thing like robbers, convicts etc.........
But its still great what these scientists have achived
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OMG, that's awesome!  Will those be for sale once they're perfected? *giggles* I don't think so though. Xd
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How very cool!!!! this is awesome... WHEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!*runs in circles*
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Ooooh, awesome! Isn't that something like memory cloth? Either way, this is awesome! Better that their last attempt which made a shadow, which was just as good.
But I don't wanna wait 3 years till the prototype is completed.
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04-07-2007, 11:33 AM
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Dude. that is so awesome -huggles their brains-
God I love humans.
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Woah, these people are really clever. *Giant brains*
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awsomeee !! human mind is very ahead now!!!
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That is sooooooooooooo cool!! It would be totally awsome to have an inviisibility cloak!
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04-07-2007, 12:35 PM
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No Way!!! Coolness!!!I want one!!!!*huggles the smarty-brains*
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Nice!!!! That's awesome! That rocks! I have to get rich and buy one!! | |
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It seems like nothing is impossible anymore...
COOL!!
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I want one. How cool would that be.
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I want one NOW! That would be soooooo cool!  | |
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leaping gargoyles, bless my soul i want one if i could get one! too abd i cant, i bet the price is gonna be a bomb! i guess i'd ACTUALLY prefer being a witch then getting that IC but... ahh forget it. i bet they'll make a broomstick fly next, then it becomes... A NEW HARRY POTTER ERA: calenders turn to BHP(before harry potter, not HBP half blood prince!) and HPE(harry potter era) totally rock on scientist! i totally love you guys even if you are nerds! WE LOVE NERDS CAUSE THEY INVENT THE MOST AMAZING THINGS!! give it up for the GEEKS! :x too much said, i better take me leave! WEARS IC AND DISAPPEARS INFRONT OF YOU...i hope it works 
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