Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled

Robotron23 writes "The BBC is reporting that a plan for a cloaking device has been unveiled. The design is pioneered by Professor Sir John Pendry's team of scientists from the US and Britain. Proof of the ability of his invention could be ready in just 18 months time using radar testing. The method revolves around certain materials making light "flow" around the given object like water."

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maths?

[aluser]

These research papers present the maths required to verify that the concept could work.

The maths required? Is that correct grammar in the uk?

Re:Obligatory

[bhtooefr]

A petrified w/hot grits Natalie Portman only wishes she had this tech. ;)

Re:Nonsense -- water does not look like light.

[davidsyes]

I wonder what they plan to do about SOUND and the attendant displacement of air. They better hope the "enemy" does not have stealth RC radar-repeater craft in the threat axis. Displace enough of them (like the cell-phone mesh that met bush#1's airmen.

Now, if only "the enemy" figures out how to make balloons or floating radar grids that periodically "taint" the air with energy waves or even vaporized fuel bombs to be ingested....sort of like "floating FAE bombs" (FAE Fuel Air Explosive)

I knew a Marine who said, "Where there's A WAY there's A WILL!"

Re:Nonsense -- water does not look like light.

[DigiShaman]

the plan was for premature detonation to break the piston rods

You can't break piston rods that way. In fact, premature detonation happens all the time when the engine timing is out of phase or you're running gasoline with to low of an octane rating that the engine was designed for. This very process of pre-detonation is known as knocking.