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Fatal Flaw Discovered In Invisibility Cloaks
KentuckyFC writes "Carpet cloaks took the world by storm last year because they were the first devices to hide objects at optical frequencies. The idea is that a thin layer of dielectric material placed on a surface can make light look as if it is reflecting off the original surface. In other words, the layer is invisible and anything embedded within it is invisible too. This trick is like hiding something under a carpet, hence the name. Carpet cloaks are relatively easy to make because the dielectric material does not need to be specially constructed to steer light in special ways; physicists call this an isotropic material. Now a group at MIT has shown that isotropic carpet cloaks have a fatal flaw. When viewed at an angle, the carpets don't hide objects at all. Instead, they simply shift their position by about the same distance as they are high. So when viewed from an angle of 45 degrees, an object 0.2 units high is shifted to one side by a distance of 0.15 units, says the team. That's a serious limitation for carpet cloaks."
Better a D&D reference than another of the endless Harry Potter ones...
I can't see how they could work.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
They should be working on a "Somebody Else's Problem" field. I hear that this is much easier than trying to much around with physics.
No, the fatal flaw is that a cloaked object moving at warp speed emits a slight subspace variance. Adversaries performing an antiproton scan may also be a problem.
What if we modify the phase variance?
What if we modify the phase variance?
yeah, as long as we randomly modulate the shield frequencies, reverse the polarity of the heisenberg compensators, and amplify the transporter buffers... we should be good to go. Earl Grey tea never tasted so good.
Unfortunately, every member of the search team is slacking off, assuming someone else is looking for it.
What if we modify the phase variance?
yeah, as long as we randomly modulate the shield frequencies, reverse the polarity of the heisenberg compensators, and amplify the transporter buffers... we should be good to go. Earl Grey tea never tasted so good.
Now see here... If the polarity of anything is to be reversed, then clearly we should start with the neutron flow...
Bow-ties are cool.
This solution will never work.
No one has even suggested routing extra power to the main deflector array yet.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!