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Acoustic "Superlens" Could Make Subs Invisible
Al writes "Nicholas Fang and colleagues at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created the first acoustic superlens, which could be used to create high-resolution ultrasound images, and perhaps ultimately make subs and ships invisible to sonar. Researchers have previously developed materials that bend light in ways that appear to violate the laws of physics, creating so-called optical superlenses. The acoustic superlens consists of an aluminum array of narrow-necked resonant cavities filed with water — the dimensions of the cavities are tuned to interact with ultrasound waves. When ultrasound waves move through the array, the cavities resonate and the sound is refocused."
Title should be "Acoustic superlens could make subs inaudible".
Thanks to this ground-breaking scientific research, submarines will be even better equipped to collide with each other.
Theorists have been working on materials that bend sound waves backward for several years.
So you mean, if this technology moves forward, and ends up getting incorporated into conventional home/portable audio systems, we may be able to settle once and for all whether or not Paul is dead?
Another day, anther Slashdot cloaking device story.
You just have to modify the deflector array to rotate the shield harmonics. Problem solved, but you'll have to do it again every few episodes.
Ignorance is the root of all evil.
They will still have to de-cloak to fire their torpedoes ...
Wrong again. We equip the whales with the lens-thingy, sonar gets bent around them, they won't get hurt, the environmentalists are happy. Then we equip them with lasers. Stealthed killer whales with friggin' lasers, dude. World domination, here I come. Muhahhahahahhaaaaa.....
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
The trivial solution would be a cavity filled with water same shape and size as the submarine, at the same position as the submarine.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
I can't believe I have to explain this, but... 'Funny' doesn't give karma - 'Interesting' does. So some people will mod a particularly funny post as 'Interesting' in order to give the commenter karma.