If I'm not mistaken... Drift velocity of electrons in a DC current is only like.. on the order of millimeters per second.. Very very slow.
Michael Borysow,
Even if this intended to be just one way. You'd have to have very little light coming from the direction of the intended person to be "blinded." This would assume that this cloak will absorb *all* (up to a point that's observable) the light that would have reflected off of it and to the observer. Well, perfect black body's just don't exist. There'll always be likely to have a reflection come off of this thing.
That's just the beginning, I don't think we're anywhere near having what's essentially an instantly recorded and rebroadcast super high resolution wrappable screen. The way, though I could be mistaken, that most light sources are created even in high definition display devices, will allow for scattering, so the image you would see where the person should be would be blurry. You'd have to get pretty close to duplicating every photon. Not nearly so accurately of course since the human eye isn't so good, but still.
I'm an undergraduate in Physics at the University of Michigan. Both my parents are physicists and I work for one. What do my parent's use when they need something programmed? Fortran! What does my boss use? Fortran! What does my boss tell *me* to use? Fortran!
Fortran is still a very useful (and relatively simple) language that's used very heavily in Physics.
Lots of software coming out of CERN is programmed in Fortran. The primarily used Monte Carlo simulation code ( That's particle physics simulations ) GEANT is coded entirely in Fortran. As is another very commonly used in High Energy Physics software package called Paw (Physics Analysis Workstation).
Most of the public and very often used software in physics that I've had the experience of working with is most definitely still in Fortran. I can't say the same for most proprietary software. But otherwise, Fortran is everywhere!
Michael Borysow,
University of Michigan
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If I'm not mistaken... Drift velocity of electrons in a DC current is only like.. on the order of millimeters per second.. Very very slow. Michael Borysow,
Even if this intended to be just one way. You'd have to have very little light coming from the direction of the intended person to be "blinded." This would assume that this cloak will absorb *all* (up to a point that's observable) the light that would have reflected off of it and to the observer. Well, perfect black body's just don't exist. There'll always be likely to have a reflection come off of this thing.
/me wanders away.
That's just the beginning, I don't think we're anywhere near having what's essentially an instantly recorded and rebroadcast super high resolution wrappable screen. The way, though I could be mistaken, that most light sources are created even in high definition display devices, will allow for scattering, so the image you would see where the person should be would be blurry. You'd have to get pretty close to duplicating every photon. Not nearly so accurately of course since the human eye isn't so good, but still.
Anyway, I'm just stupid.
I'm an undergraduate in Physics at the University of Michigan. Both my parents are physicists and I work for one. What do my parent's use when they need something programmed? Fortran! What does my boss use? Fortran! What does my boss tell *me* to use? Fortran! Fortran is still a very useful (and relatively simple) language that's used very heavily in Physics. Lots of software coming out of CERN is programmed in Fortran. The primarily used Monte Carlo simulation code ( That's particle physics simulations ) GEANT is coded entirely in Fortran. As is another very commonly used in High Energy Physics software package called Paw (Physics Analysis Workstation). Most of the public and very often used software in physics that I've had the experience of working with is most definitely still in Fortran. I can't say the same for most proprietary software. But otherwise, Fortran is everywhere! Michael Borysow, University of Michigan