Wasn't there something about Albert Einstein inventing something like this that teleported a U.S. Battleship?
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It was a destroyer escort named the Eldridge. The Philadelphia experiment....he used large magnetic generators to make a destroyer dissappear off of radar. I think it has been proven false. Link to wiki article about it DD
that's the movie version. Read the wikipedia version that you cited; it is closer to farrisdabis's version.
Nifty concept. Like anything it could have problems, but think of all of the power of crushing our enemies like Stalin!
Like that really matter in the grand scheme of things. Just like X-Ray vision, an Invisible suit has much better uses than military. Like Jessica Alba.
Because light has further to travel, I'd think it would still be possible to detect with a computer and a video camera. Sort of like when you look through a large diamond and it seems to "catch" light. Also, I imagine this is only good for the visible spectrum and unless you were insulated would show up in infrared and various wavelengths of radar. Still quite an accomplishment.
dude, that's not invisibility. What they do is project the image. then you cover an object in reflective material - so the projection is reflected back and it looks like the object is transparent. it's still pretty cool, but again, the background you are seeing in the vids is actually a projection....not real.
There is something I'm not quite understanding with this thing they have done. Can you actually see THROUGH the object or the object acts like a mirror now?
No, that stuff is not the invisibility that people have been studying for years and have made major strides in, through knowledge of metamaterials and nanotechnology. This is something very different. It is considered optical camouflage. Those guys at the Tachi Lab in Japan specialize in virtual reality. Something this complex would never be displayed (for the first time) in such a comical manner. http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak.htm How stuff works FTW!!
