The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Cloak enough to cover visible objects
A team in UK recently fabricated a cloak that works under green light to make optical delusions [http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1012/1012.2783.pdf]. This cloak is large and able to cover an object as large as 10mm^3. The physics is governed by Maxwell's equations. The substance is calcite, which has anisotropic optical properties.
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