Towards Cloaking Visible Light: Three-dimensional Metamaterials For The Optical Wavelength Range
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1221231539.htm
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Last year researchers from Duke University stunned the world when they announced a cloaking device for the microwave range. This device made use of metamaterials that had a negative refractive index for electromagnetic radiation. The metamaterials were carefully designed split-ring resonators with a structure size much smaller than the wavelength. Only 10 stacked layers of metamaterials were necessary to achieve the desired invisibility effect.
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Possible applications in the future include perfect lenses that beat the diffraction limit, and optical cloaking devices which provide some invisibility for macroscopic objects
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Very interesting indeed.
This isn't all that is being done using nanoscale science. I will be posting more data that shows some of the cloaking technology developed to date.
Consider, for example, the "Paint the Night" program run in the late 90's, headed by the great, late Mike Muuss (he also wrote "Ping", which is on virtually every computer in the world).
http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/papers/99mssg/sld007.htm
Now, if you consider the ability to create 'clouds' of vapor (each with a defined surface tension), you can see how the PTN technology could possibly evolve. Further that with airborne nano's (which can 'congeal' due to EM properties). Voila!!! This is how Mr. Lear's holographic planes could be pulled off.
