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In this experiment the scientists used microwaves to try and detect the cylinder. Like light and radar waves, microwaves bounce off objects making them visible and creating a shadow, though it has to be detected with instruments.
Cloaking differs from stealth technology, which doesn't make an aircraft invisible but reduces the cross-section available to radar, making it hard to track. Cloaking simply passes the radar or other waves around the object as if it weren't there, like water flowing around a smooth rock in a stream.
In effect the device, made of metamaterials _ engineered mixtures of metal and circuit board materials, which could include ceramic, Teflon or fiber composite materials _ channels the microwaves around the object being hidden.
When water flows around a rock, the water recombines after it passes the rock and people looking at the water downstream would never know it had passed a rock.
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Originally posted by ashwhy
how long will i have to wait for a harry potter style cloking gown?
The cloak is made of metamaterials, which are mixtures of metal and circuit board materials such as ceramic, Teflon or fiber composite.[...]"one could imagine 'cloaking' acoustic waves, so as to shield a region from vibration or seismic activity."
i hope we use it for something peaceful ,
as phil schnider says there 44years in tech advancement to every calender year,which means there in the year 4400 or something,
Originally posted by Nygdan
i hope we use it for something peaceful ,
What the heck would you use cloaking devices for peacefully? Heck, the tech wouldn't even exist without Military Intelligence, they're the ones that funded it.
as phil schnider says there 44years in tech advancement to every calender year,which means there in the year 4400 or something,
I've allways heard it as, the military technology is 10 years in advance of what they are publically saying.
But, of course, this is a little different, since its involving non-military researchers and engineers.