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  • Scientists create a kind of invisibility shield by bending microwaves

    10/19/2006 8:43:34 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 72 replies · 1,920+ views
    Harry Potter and Captain Kirk would be proud. A team of American and British researchers has made a Cloak of Invisibility. Well, OK, it's not perfect. Yet. But it's a start, and it did a pretty good job of hiding a copper cylinder from microwave detection. Like light and radar waves, microwaves bounce off objects making them visible and creating a shadow, though it has to be detected with instruments. And if you can hide something from microwaves, you can hide it from radar - a possibility that will fascinate the military - and likely from eyesight as well. Cloaking...