A New Cloaking Method: This is not a 'Star Trek' or 'Harry Potter' Story (w/ Video)
Monday, August 17, 2009 - 04:21
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, the new method someday might shield submarines from sonar, planes from radar, buildings from earthquakes, and oil rigs and coastal structures from tsunamis.