Scary.
Scary.
NO need to panic folks, I have just invented a pair of glasses that can see anyone trying to use invisibility.
Firstly id just like to say it is possible. Its just that the field can only divert one frequency at a time.
Essentially if you were hiding under it (its a cone shape) the people looking at you would see every frequency of light that's not the one that it is diverting. Now if the device itself is only reflecting one frequency of light, ie moon light or a laser beam, it can become totally invisible in that the light seems to pass through it.
Now if i understand it correctly i would be fairly simple for some sort of radar system to detect it. The device takes in the light and redirects it around the object. If the source was pulsating then just looking for areas where the frequency of pulses changes drastically would show the object easily.
Now if it was just cloaking it from humans since we don't have these abilities we wouldn't be able to see it. But for robots they'd still be ok with lasers and radar :p
But i totally agree with will be used by the military, and since the other sides don't really have westerners tech they will be rather screwed. Just think of an invisible sniper. Least ill be on the winning side :D
This was already out in the news like an year ago with pictures.
Some Japanese guy came up with this whole new idea about using multiple photo voltaic cells to reflect the back to the front - so basically create an illusion and hence become invisible.
This one is possible too but its a similar concept.
The japanese guy infact made a prototype of his idea but because of lack of funding the guy only could get it to be partially invisible but he proved it that it can be done. I did hear that the americans were willing to sponsor the guy but no idea what happened after that.
The image in the first link is blatently a rendered image so not real at all, its all theoryOriginally Posted by kost
maybe US has already an army of invisible elite soldiers... :p
Not very likely, because the first prototype has yet to be made.
We cant really tell that for sure coz the US Government does not reveal half the stuff it does and it has no necessity whatsoever to do reveal it even if they did have an army of invisible soldiers. Wont that surely give them an upper hand at war? Hell yeah it would.
its stuff like this that will end the world :p
Could be, but to be honest I don't think that thing is really practical. The article talks about metal pins being placed on a cone. That sounds to me like it would break very easily, and be pretty heavy. Plus it can only bend of one spectrum of light. So I don't think it will be as successful as many people think.
Problem with that is...it's not invisible. It's bending light around the object. Think of it as a Chameleon spell instead of an invisibility spell. You can still make out the object but not entirely.
harry potter rofl.
butchea. x]
Privacy, i don't know that word. :P
I'm scared... (j/k)
Haha thefall made a point. If this does happen everyone will have them on, or rooms may be lit up so that heat will be shown or something in that line of thought. Mainly because people like (me) will be looking at girls (like you, yes you , the cute one in the back!) in the shower.... >.>
Positive + Negative On the subject "Invisibility"
I am sure the United States already developed a full working suit of camouflage in which a person can dress in and marking the person totally invisible to the naked eye
Nah nvm...i wont bother
Last edited by TEAM/MEDICAL; 11-04-07 at 06:18 AM.
Cool
A terrible problem will result if they develop a full working suit for a person
I bet the medical industry will become involved and they will start giving people cancer, Damaging peoples kidneys and eyes and heart
so they can have a little secret business of damaging peoples health
Society is going for self destruction as we know it
You know, I'm missing the connection between the invisibility suit and gving people cancers...
why has so much new stuff been designed to help us kill each other more effieciently? "hurray! he cant see me! now i can kill him and, er, make the country...a better...place..."The cloak could shield soldiers from night-vision goggles which use only one wavelength of light.
on the other hand, think how much fun u could have wearing clothes that make u invisible =D u could pull so many pranks ^_^
when everyone asked what power you would want when you were a kid... i would say invincibility!! this is awsome
The ability to make objects invisible is now being given some serious thought by physicists, with the use of metamaterials (materials which react very oddly to electromagnetic radiation). These materials can theoretically be used to bend light around the object using various forms of refraction and negative refraction. The lines of light (which is electromagnetic radiation along with radio, micro, infra-red, UV, X-ray and gamma waves) will hit the cloaking device and be forced to detour around the object and continue their paths as if nothing was there, hence making it 'invisible'.
According to a guest Professor who gave a lecture at my Uni about the possibilities of this; physicists know how to create a cloaking device, but have not yet had a proper go at it. Although we have the theory and some of the engineering for it, we are miles away from creating something like Harry's cloak :P
I don't know how useful it will be with today's detection technology, but applications for it will certainly be found I'm sure.
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