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How To See Through an Invisibility Cloak

Posted by timothy on from the very-zen dept.

AMESN writes "Ways to bend light around objects and render them invisible are becoming a major field of scientific study and gaining ground. While no actual invisibility cloak exists yet, researchers are also theorizing on how to beat the perfect cloak."

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  1. The easy solution, from the article by JonC88 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just throw a stone at it.

  2. TFA by wizardforce · · Score: 3, Informative

    TFA mentions using charged particles and multiple wavelengths of EM to detect a clocked object. TFA suggests that they were measuring the actual effect on the path of the radiation its self although it should be pointed out that this is quite possibly unnecessary as high energy charged particle entering a solid material undergo an extremely high de-acceleration phase which causes charged particles to emit EM radiation. It's called Bremsstrahlung radiation and could quite possibly be detected.

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  3. Silly question by eyrieowl · · Score: 3, Informative

    Use a scrying spell, obviously.