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more on The Economist: How to weave a cloak that makes you invisible
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 16:47:52 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu Date: May 26, 2006 4:08:36 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip () v2 listbox comSubject: Re: [IP] more on The Economist: How to weave a cloak that makes you invisible
On Fri, 26 May 2006 15:47:33 EDT, David Farber said:
From: Ed Gerck <egerck () nma com> Date: May 26, 2006 2:10:32 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip () v2 listbox comSubject: Re: [IP] The Economist: How to weave a cloak that makes you invisible
The invisibility claim does not follow from the theory. The electromagnetic, waves, even if they maintain the exact same path and polarization after the object, will be delayed by "going around". Since the speed of light cannot increase beyond c, there is no way to make up for the delay. The object canbe seen by a simple interferometer arrangement.
Only if you have a baseline to calibrate the interferometer against. Yes, the object can be detected by an interferometer *if* it's standing in front
of a nicely calibrated wall where you *know* what the values should be: http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/dbgallery/2/chamelea.shtml However, if the object is in front of a bush or a field of grass or similar, it becomes a *lot* harder to do the interferometry trick: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/cog_dalmatian/index.html (The page isn't about this, specifically - but does demonstrate the difficulty of dealing with a "noisy" background....) ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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