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Bro, you right optical camouflage technology which now being used usa army still in 1 St phase and needs more reaserch. But my point is instead of laughing at do hear his views.Peopke like us once laughed at galileo, Newton and Einstein. Invisibility machines now a days are the most researched subject for scientist world wide.
PARIS — Researchers in Germany may have developed a technological solution to the global economic crisis, even if that was the furthest thing from their minds.
The breakthrough occurred at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where scientists, working with colleagues from Imperial College London and other universities, have come up with a way to tailor the flow of light around objects so that they disappear from view.
The European Commission, which financed the research, touted the results in a news release last week, even though the actual work occurred months ago. The release of the latest film from the “Harry Potter” series, in which the teenage wizard sometimes dons a cloak of invisibility, provided a convenient news hook.
The commission is eager to highlight examples of European technological wizardry, as it tries to dispel concerns that the continent is incapable of producing its own versions of Google, Apple, Facebook, Intel and Cisco to rival U.S. high-technology prowess.
Martin Wegener, a physics professor at the institute in Karlsruhe, said the research could result in improvements in imaging equipment and other industrial uses. Researchers say these could include so-called perfect lenses that would provide high-definition images through microscopes, advancements in laser design or devices to “store” light artificially — things that are now beyond the powers of many a wizard.
He said he was skeptical about the potential of using invisibility technology on the battlefield, which reportedly has interested the U.S. military, among others.
“I’m not excited about cloaking tanks, or that kind of thing,” Professor Wegener said. “We are thinking about it in broader terms.”
Failing to see the obvious may be an occupational hazard in this line of research, so allow me to suggest some real-world applications of Europe’s new invisibility technology.
Imagine the possibilities, for example, when applied to the debt problems that are tearing away at the ties that bind the 16 countries of the euro zone: That stack of Portuguese bonds? Poof! That bundle of Irish bank loans? Now you see them, now you don’t. Those Greek budget fudges? Gone.
O.K., a little fine-tuning may still be required. The Karlsruhe experiment occurred in the realm of nanotechnology, which means that the objects that disappeared were only a tiny fraction of the width of a hair, so they were invisible to the human eye anyway. But as the research develops incrementally, it should be possible to turn visible things invisible, Professor Wegener said.
In other words, in Silicon Valley parlance, invisibility is scalable. Assuming a giant invisibility machine could be built, it could have broader uses when applied to the Europe’s financial problems. Why not, for example, aim it at some of those empty apartment buildings on the Costa del Sol in Spain, the ones that were erected with bubble-era debt? The benefits would be aesthetic as well as financial.
While researchers elsewhere, including the United States and China, are also working on invisibility, Professor Wegener said this was one area in which Europe was in the vanguard. U.S. researchers, for example, have reported achieving invisibility in only two dimensions, so that items disappear when viewed from a specific angle. Mr. Wegener said the experiments in Karlsruhe were the first to extend this to three dimensions, rendering an object all-around invisible.
If Europe is indeed in the lead, there may be export opportunities. Invisibility devices could be sold to the U.S. Federal Reserve, to assist it in the process of “quantitative easing,” under which the central bank buys up bonds from the U.S. Treasury in an effort to pump more money into the economy. That way the Fed could solve one of the biggest problems with this policy: transparency.
When everyone can see that the authorities are simply handing money from the right hand to the left, no one is fooled into thinking the money it produces is real. If it happened behind a cloak of invisibility — well, it just might work.
PARIS — Researchers in Germany may have developed a technological solution to the global economic crisis, even if that was the furthest thing from their minds.
The breakthrough occurred at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where scientists, working with colleagues from Imperial College London and other universities, have come up with a way to tailor the flow of light around objects so that they disappear from view.
The European Commission, which financed the research, touted the results in a news release last week, even though the actual work occurred months ago. The release of the latest film from the “Harry Potter” series, in which the teenage wizard sometimes dons a cloak of invisibility, provided a convenient news hook.
The commission is eager to highlight examples of European technological wizardry, as it tries to dispel concerns that the continent is incapable of producing its own versions of Google, Apple, Facebook, Intel and Cisco to rival U.S. high-technology prowess.
Martin Wegener, a physics professor at the institute in Karlsruhe, said the research could result in improvements in imaging equipment and other industrial uses. Researchers say these could include so-called perfect lenses that would provide high-definition images through microscopes, advancements in laser design or devices to “store” light artificially — things that are now beyond the powers of many a wizard.
He said he was skeptical about the potential of using invisibility technology on the battlefield, which reportedly has interested the U.S. military, among others.
“I’m not excited about cloaking tanks, or that kind of thing,” Professor Wegener said. “We are thinking about it in broader terms.”
Failing to see the obvious may be an occupational hazard in this line of research, so allow me to suggest some real-world applications of Europe’s new invisibility technology.
Imagine the possibilities, for example, when applied to the debt problems that are tearing away at the ties that bind the 16 countries of the euro zone: That stack of Portuguese bonds? Poof! That bundle of Irish bank loans? Now you see them, now you don’t. Those Greek budget fudges? Gone.
O.K., a little fine-tuning may still be required. The Karlsruhe experiment occurred in the realm of nanotechnology, which means that the objects that disappeared were only a tiny fraction of the width of a hair, so they were invisible to the human eye anyway. But as the research develops incrementally, it should be possible to turn visible things invisible, Professor Wegener said.
In other words, in Silicon Valley parlance, invisibility is scalable. Assuming a giant invisibility machine could be built, it could have broader uses when applied to the Europe’s financial problems. Why not, for example, aim it at some of those empty apartment buildings on the Costa del Sol in Spain, the ones that were erected with bubble-era debt? The benefits would be aesthetic as well as financial.
While researchers elsewhere, including the United States and China, are also working on invisibility, Professor Wegener said this was one area in which Europe was in the vanguard. U.S. researchers, for example, have reported achieving invisibility in only two dimensions, so that items disappear when viewed from a specific angle. Mr. Wegener said the experiments in Karlsruhe were the first to extend this to three dimensions, rendering an object all-around invisible.
If Europe is indeed in the lead, there may be export opportunities. Invisibility devices could be sold to the U.S. Federal Reserve, to assist it in the process of “quantitative easing,” under which the central bank buys up bonds from the U.S. Treasury in an effort to pump more money into the economy. That way the Fed could solve one of the biggest problems with this policy: transparency.
When everyone can see that the authorities are simply handing money from the right hand to the left, no one is fooled into thinking the money it produces is real. If it happened behind a cloak of invisibility — well, it just might work.
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