Scientists close to Potter-style 'invisibility cloak'

ABC.Net ^ | 4-6-2007 | staff writer

[bedolido]

Scientists say they have finally come up with a workable design for an invisibility cloak.

Physicists figured out the complex mathematical equations for making objects invisible by bending light around them last year.

Now a group of engineers at Purdue University in Indiana have used those calculations to design a relatively simple device that ought to be able to - one day soon - make objects as big as an aeroplane simply disappear.

[massgopguy]

What about Green Rigelian women?

[AFPhys]

Close?

LOL...

Great concept... but “close”? No Way.

[FrankR]

I had one of those cloaks...but I dropped it two years ago, and can’t find it anywhere...

[dartuser]

Totally irrelevant ... Dr. Quest and Race Bannon will simply strap on their jet packs and drop paint filled baggies on these so-called invisible planes.

[Waverunner]

Love the way they dance.

[bedolido]

Or Thunderbolt the Wonder Colt would have raced around them so fast as to cause dust so give them away...

[Reaganesque]

I could shield a spacecraft from x-rays and gamma rays.

[irishtenor]

I’ve not seen it several times lately.

[LibWhacker]

My wife says I have one that bends sounds waves, because I never hear what she says.

[aft_lizard]

I doubt she spit, I think she swallowed. (OK OK I know thats bad but she is from San Francisco)

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Right, I never did learn the language.

[crazyhorse691]

Capt. Kirk stole it and the Romulan lady Capt.

[bedolido]

I tried to learn the language and kept spitting on my teacher... eventually he took his sword-thingy and came after me... I was killed in the fight but later reconstituted on planet Alderon with Anijin Skywalker.

[ClearCase_guy]

I could shield a spacecraft from x-rays and gamma rays.

That sounds fantastic. It's just the thing for NASA. But being invisible is better. If anyone diagrees with me, they can flame on.

[GunnyHartman]

We can sell that technology to the Chinese for campaign contributions that will make us a shoe-in in '08.

[secretagent]

I can see how you don’t see it that way.

[randog]

:^)

[Old Professer]

I’ll take one mother-in-law XL and one nosy-neighbor XXXL.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Think of the possibilities for the burka business. All you’d see coming down the street is two eyes. WOW! I like it. There are many, many days, especially when child was younger, that I would have loved to have had a cloaking device. “Mommy, Mommy, where are you?!” Just then a voice out of nowhere says, “I told you no cookies before supper!” Kid immediately puts the lid back on the cookie jar and says, “Okay, God.” So many possibilities.

[Rick_Michael]

Hillary couldn't get invisible fast enough.