SocraticGadfly: Engage cloaking device, Mr. Sulu

August 11, 2008

Engage cloaking device, Mr. Sulu

Well, maybe in the 23rd century, some starship captain will say that. Scientists have invented two new “metamaterials” that can bend light the wrong way.

The two items work in different ways, and neither one claims to be opaque to the entire electromagnetic spectrum, but it’s a start.

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