Researchers suggest magicians' mirror tricks could be used as large scale cloaking devices (w/ video)
Monday, June 10, 2013 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —John Howell, a Professor of Physics at the University of Rochester, and his teenage son, have uploaded a paper to the preprint server arXiv in which they suggest that some common magicians' tricks could be used to create large cloaking devices. They describe three types of simple cloaking devices: one made of Plexiglass and water, another of inexpensive lenses, and a third constructed using ordinary mirrors.