Bringing Back the Magic In Metamaterials

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 20, 2015 @11:12AM from the making-things-better dept.

Charliemopps writes: Though it's 30 years late, transparent aluminum, as predicted in the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, may finally be here. There have been many attempts to create transparent metals in the past few years, and some have been somewhat successful, if only for a few femtoseconds. But now, by modifying metals like silver and aluminum at the subwavelength scale, researchers are developing "Meta-Materials" that cause light to interact with these metals in new and interesting ways. One of their more promising goals is to create a "perfect lens" which would allow an everyday person to view things as small as a virus with the naked eye.

1 of 83 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

What is this BS? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-07-20 11:36 · Score: 5, Insightful

"in the pass few years" - just bad editing.
"the subwavelength scale" - pure unadulterated bullshit.
So, did they have to invert the polarity of the warp field? Give me a fucking break.