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007 asked in Science & MathematicsChemistry · 2 decades ago

Russian Scientist patents Invisibility Cloak. What are the possibilities?

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  • 2 decades ago
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    The picture is photo-shopped, and the technology is no where near a cloak like that depicted being patented. The research decribed is talking about individual nano-particles (meaning less than a millionth of a meter). Maybe one day, but I seriously doubt it will be any time in the next 200 years (and probably not even then). The technology is amazingly complex.

  • 2 decades ago

    No. The link posted is definately false.

    But the question is 'what are the possibilities?' and the answer to that is:

    Certain degrees of invisibility are possible.

    A good example was the concept car in the recent James Bond movie that was invisible, developed of a real concept. That being that light attacking the vehicular obstruction is acurately measured and re-emitted on the other side. This would require awesome computer processing power as well as a pretty decent power source, and once again the 'degree' to which they succeeded in James' concept car is impracticle.

    In the case of the 'cloak' in your link, it can be dubunked as such. The 'information' of the light approaching our camera eye view is entirely lost while trying to pass though the mans body (and flesh is not even translucent much less transparent). The remaining option is for the cloak to measure light and re-emit it on the other side. This is not possible with a wavey cloths fluttering in the breeze, because it cannot even compute a ray trace wince it does not know it's previous position even.

    Concept wise, is invisibility possible in such a manner? I would imagine it would require something such as the use of neutrinos. Subatomic particles with almost not mass or possibly no mass at all, but what we do know about them is that they can manage to pass though the entire earth without colliding with a single atom. This fact also makes them very difficult to even detect. So.... improve this technology that detects neutrinos, have the cloak convert photon wave particles into neutrinos, giving them identical vectors, have them traverse the human's insides, and then reconvert them to photons again on the far side of the cloak. Both the neutrinos and the photons travel at the same speed (not always true, but almost true in the case of the air around that human and van in the picture) so with this process, a very successful degree of 'invisibility' could be accomplished depending on the processing speed of the two conversions. A non-instant conversion would create a detectable anomaly around the perimiter of the human/cloak.

    I think it important to point out that you can still see shadows on the folds of this 'invisibility cloak', indicating that they can bend/affect light, but they can't even manage a shadow.

    First guy was right, it's photoshoped. Also, I know exactly what filters I would apply in Photoshop to do this 8)

    Source(s): Me.
  • 2 decades ago

    what is ignorant about saying that jews are exploiting people's ignorances,and misfortune"? why have such ignorance, however, with the russian scientist's cloak, the audiences in these exploitive programs, can remain invisible

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