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U of T developing radar 'invisibility cloak'
Toronto Sun ^ | November 12, 2013 | Jenny Yuen

Posted on 11/13/2013 11:38:07 AM PST by Squawk 8888

TORONTO - Harry Potter, eat your heart out.

A University of Toronto professor and a PhD student have developed a new invisibility cloak — at least on radar.

Computer engineering Prof. George Eleftheriades and PhD student Michael Selvanayagam are now in talks with the Canadian military to see if their new approach to making things invisible to radar can be applied in the field.

It could possibly hide military vehicles or have uses in surveillance operations.

In addition to the Armed Forces, it could possibly be used to help ease the movement of signals from cellular base stations.

“We ‘see’ a physical object by detecting electromagnetic waves scattered from the object,” Eleftheriades explained Tuesday. “A device that can ‘correct’ or cancel that scattering would take the notion of a magic invisibility cloak from the realm of science fiction to reality.”

In order to cloak objects from radar, the researchers surround it with many small antennas that radiate an electromagnetic field. The radiated field cancels out any waves scattering off the object, making it appear “invisible.”

Eleftheriades and Selvanayagam have been working on a functional invisibility cloak since 2006, but earlier efforts yielded no practical uses.

The system can also alter the “radiowave signature” of a cloaked object, making it appear bigger, smaller or even shifting it in space.


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1 posted on 11/13/2013 11:38:07 AM PST by Squawk 8888
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To: Clive; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; Cannoneer No. 4; ...
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

2 posted on 11/13/2013 11:41:01 AM PST by Squawk 8888 (I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
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Perhaps Toronto mayor Ford would like to give it a whirl.


3 posted on 11/13/2013 11:41:08 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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Will it work on speed trap radars??


4 posted on 11/13/2013 11:41:25 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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5 posted on 11/13/2013 11:45:05 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Squawk 8888

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away...

When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door... (slam!)

Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away...


6 posted on 11/13/2013 11:46:48 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: Squawk 8888

Why announce it?


8 posted on 11/13/2013 11:47:51 AM PST by JohnG45
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I didn’t see that coming.


9 posted on 11/13/2013 11:49:18 AM PST by liberateUS
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To: JohnG45
Why announce it?

Dictators are notoriously paranoid. Can you imagine if they suspect that something is there but they just can't see it?

10 posted on 11/13/2013 11:54:25 AM PST by oldbrowser (The debt limit is the emergency brake on government spending)
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To: Squawk 8888

Sounds like what ECM (electronic counter measures) aircraft have been doing for years.


11 posted on 11/13/2013 11:54:55 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: Squawk 8888

What’s the big deal.... democrats invented invisible voters years ago.


12 posted on 11/13/2013 11:57:59 AM PST by Random Access
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Don’t the Klingon’s already have this?


13 posted on 11/13/2013 12:08:50 PM PST by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: Squawk 8888

Elements of the Philadelphia Story.


14 posted on 11/13/2013 12:10:27 PM PST by NY Attitude (Make love not war but be prepared for either.)
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To: JohnG45

To discuss that, we really must insist on the Cone of Silence.


15 posted on 11/13/2013 12:16:47 PM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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But the Cone of Silence never works...


16 posted on 11/13/2013 12:22:45 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Squawk 8888

Sounds like they reinvented the Salisbury screen.


17 posted on 11/13/2013 12:29:49 PM PST by donmeaker
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To: Squawk 8888

Cloaking is child’s play. A transporter is the technology that will change the world.

Beam me up, Scotty!


18 posted on 11/13/2013 12:36:58 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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There’s gotta be a Red Dwarf for this...


19 posted on 11/13/2013 12:41:18 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
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Sounds fishy!


20 posted on 11/13/2013 1:06:09 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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