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Monday, April 09, 2007
HARRY'S INVISIBILITY CLOAK COULD BECOME REALITY
As most of you know, I’m a big Harry Potter fan, having read all the books and seen all the films. The books are so well written and the special effects so good that you almost feel sometimes that you are there alongside Harry, enjoying his many adventures. One of the boy wizard’s most famous “props” is his invisibility cloak which allows him to roam Hogwarts’ library in the middle of the night, without being discovered.
The Harry Potter stories are fiction but it seems that fiction is about to become reality as scientists at an Indiana University have discovered how to create a real-life invisibility cloak. Apparently only last year, physicists discovered the complex mathematical equations for bending light around objects to make them invisible. University engineers have now used these calculations to create a device that could eventually make objects the size of a plane just disappear into thin air. If the university can secure funding, a prototype device could be up and running within two to three years. Fascinating stuff!
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Naomi, this sounds like an April Fool's Day joke. It's hard for my mind to imagine this, but I guess few people thought we'd ever be able to go to the moon and then there were all those flat-earthers. Interesting.
This is scary too!!! I hope your Easter was peaceful!
Thanks for stopping by Sheila and Janey. With the technology we have today, it seems nothing is beyond the realms of possibility anymore! Maybe one day somebody will build a time machine as well. That would be fascinating just like something out of an HG Wells novel!
That's amazing. The light idea has been used many times in sci-fi and the fact it could happen would be great....as long as the army doesn't get hold of it of course LOL
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