Friday, March 11, 2016

Realistic Invisibility Cloaks May Actually Be Physically Impossible


Perfect Invisibility Cloaks May Actually Be Physically Impossible
Image by Tobias Hone

We would all love to own an invisibility cloak. But new research suggests that if they do ever exist they won’t be perfect: They’ll be more like Predator, less like Harry Potter.


A pair of researchers from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and the University of Otago have carried out theoretical modelling in an attempt to understand how an invisibility cloak might actually work in real life. There are different ways to make invisibility cloaks, all of which have to contend with…



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Realistic Invisibility Cloaks May Actually Be Physically Impossible

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