Negative Refraction? Invisibility?
How does it work!
MARTEN POUTSMA
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"First, a disclaimer: Invisibility cloaks like Harry Potter's are nowhere near becoming reality. Nor has anyone unearthed proof that the infamous Philadelphia experiment—in which U.S. Navy scientists in 1943 supposedly made a destroyer and its crew vanish—really took place. Stygian crystals, said to confer invisibility in Star Wars films and books, remain figments of writers' imaginations. And not one invisibility shield yet exists, not even a mouse-size one"
Knowing this and keeping it in the back of our mind the reality is like this: Scientists have been doing a lot of thinking about how light and matter interact. And recent advances resurrected the notion of negatively refracting materials.
In most materials, the electromagnetic properties arise directly from the characteristics of constituent atoms and molecules. Because these constituents have a limited range......
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