Scientists refuse to be further spanked by magic
Via cnn.com: Scientists, sick of being punked by teenage wizards, are designing their own invisibility cloak.
“To be realistic, it’s going to be fairly thick. Cloak is a misnomer. ‘Shield’ might be more appropriate,” said John Pendry, a physicist at the Imperial College London.
The keys are special manmade materials, unlike any in nature or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. These materials are intended to steer light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation around an object, rendering it as invisible as something tucked into a hole in space. …A cloak made of those materials, with a structure designed down to the submicroscopic scale, would neither reflect light nor cast a shadow.
Instead, like a river streaming around a smooth boulder, light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation would strike the cloak and simply flow around it, continuing on as if it never bumped up against an obstacle. That would give an onlooker the apparent ability to peer right through the cloak, with everything tucked inside concealed from view.
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I wish they'd stop screwing around with invisibility this and laser beam that. These things can only lead to evil.
The world needs alternative modes of transportation. They need to be spending their money on developing anti-gravity technology for flying cars or better yet teleportation.