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Re: Real world thermoptic camo - invisibility cloak


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 12:40:21 -0400

On Mon, 04 May 2009 05:03:44 +0300, Gadi Evron said:
This is an exciting week in science innovation, or at least them finally
becoming practical and public.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090501154143.htm

Before we get too hyped up, RTFA:

"In the experiments reported in Nature Materials, the cloak was used to cover
an area that measured about 3.8 microns by 400 nanometers."

So we can make a microscopic piece of dust dissapear. ;)

(For comparison - human hair is in 30-100 micron range...)

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