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"Uncle Clover" |
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08 Oct 2006 11:12:07 PM |
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Another component of invisibility |
I've been noting the recent progress in the quest for invisibility.
The methods I've read about so far involve microscopic prisms, but I've
realized there's another necessary component which we already seem to
have, at least to a degree: the ability to eliminate a reflection.
I just got new glasses a week or so ago, and they have that
anti-reflective coating on them. It's almost like the lenses aren't
even there when they're totally clean. So that would definitely be
something the microscopic prisms would need to have. Perhaps two birds
could be killed with one stone and they could make the microscopic
prisms _from_ the anti-reflective material.
Just a thought, laterz...
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| User: "Jim07D6" |
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| Title: Re: Another component of invisibility |
08 Oct 2006 11:44:52 PM |
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"Uncle Clover" <uncleclover@yahoo.com> said:
I've been noting the recent progress in the quest for invisibility.
The methods I've read about so far involve microscopic prisms, but I've
realized there's another necessary component which we already seem to
have, at least to a degree: the ability to eliminate a reflection.
I just got new glasses a week or so ago, and they have that
anti-reflective coating on them. It's almost like the lenses aren't
even there when they're totally clean. So that would definitely be
something the microscopic prisms would need to have. Perhaps two birds
could be killed with one stone and they could make the microscopic
prisms _from_ the anti-reflective material.
Just a thought, laterz...
Could you cite some of the "recent progress"? Size reduction and/or
elimination of surface effects, eg by immersing a colorless,
transparent object in a fluid of identical refractive index, seem to
be the only technological situations.
-- Jim07D6
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| User: "Uncle Clover" |
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| Title: Re: Another component of invisibility |
09 Oct 2006 02:13:25 AM |
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On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:44:52 GMT, Jim07D6 <Jim07D6@nospam.net> wrote:
"Uncle Clover" <uncleclover@yahoo.com> said:
I've been noting the recent progress in the quest for invisibility.
The methods I've read about so far involve microscopic prisms, but I've
realized there's another necessary component which we already seem to
have, at least to a degree: the ability to eliminate a reflection.
I just got new glasses a week or so ago, and they have that
anti-reflective coating on them. It's almost like the lenses aren't
even there when they're totally clean. So that would definitely be
something the microscopic prisms would need to have. Perhaps two birds
could be killed with one stone and they could make the microscopic
prisms _from_ the anti-reflective material.
Just a thought, laterz...
Could you cite some of the "recent progress"? Size reduction and/or
elimination of surface effects, eg by immersing a colorless,
transparent object in a fluid of identical refractive index, seem to
be the only technological situations.
-- Jim07D6
Sure, here's one article:
http://www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2006/06/01/StateNational/Invisibility.Research.Nearly.Magical-2015158.shtml?norewrite200610082209&sourcedomain=www.dailytarheel.com
....or a shorter URL:
http://tinyurl.com/hjf57
The theory is practical and workable, I'd say, though we won't be very good at
it in the visible spectrum for a few years yet. But we're getting there. :-)
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L8r,
Uncle Clover
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| User: "Jim07D6" |
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| Title: Re: Another component of invisibility |
09 Oct 2006 03:09:30 AM |
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Uncle Clover <UncleClover@SpamMeNot.com> said:
On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:44:52 GMT, Jim07D6 <Jim07D6@nospam.net> wrote:
"Uncle Clover" <uncleclover@yahoo.com> said:
I've been noting the recent progress in the quest for invisibility.
The methods I've read about so far involve microscopic prisms, but I've
realized there's another necessary component which we already seem to
have, at least to a degree: the ability to eliminate a reflection.
I just got new glasses a week or so ago, and they have that
anti-reflective coating on them. It's almost like the lenses aren't
even there when they're totally clean. So that would definitely be
something the microscopic prisms would need to have. Perhaps two birds
could be killed with one stone and they could make the microscopic
prisms _from_ the anti-reflective material.
Just a thought, laterz...
Could you cite some of the "recent progress"? Size reduction and/or
elimination of surface effects, eg by immersing a colorless,
transparent object in a fluid of identical refractive index, seem to
be the only technological situations.
-- Jim07D6
Sure, here's one article:
http://www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2006/06/01/StateNational/Invisibility.Research.Nearly.Magical-2015158.shtml?norewrite200610082209&sourcedomain=www.dailytarheel.com
...or a shorter URL:
http://tinyurl.com/hjf57
The theory is practical and workable, I'd say, though we won't be very good at
it in the visible spectrum for a few years yet. But we're getting there. :-)
Thanks.
-- Jim07D6
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| User: "ike milligan" |
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| Title: Re: Another component of invisibility |
09 Oct 2006 01:30:13 AM |
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"Uncle Clover" <uncleclover@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1160349127.430537.85160@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
I've been noting the recent progress in the quest for invisibility.
The methods I've read about so far involve microscopic prisms, but I've
realized there's another necessary component which we already seem to
have, at least to a degree: the ability to eliminate a reflection.
I just got new glasses a week or so ago, and they have that
anti-reflective coating on them. It's almost like the lenses aren't
even there when they're totally clean. So that would definitely be
something the microscopic prisms would need to have. Perhaps two birds
could be killed with one stone and they could make the microscopic
prisms _from_ the anti-reflective material.
Just a thought, laterz...
It's alot easier to kill two birsd if you are invisible.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Another component of invisibility |
09 Oct 2006 07:51:42 PM |
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On 8 Oct 2006 16:12:07 -0700, "Uncle Clover" <uncleclover@yahoo.com>
wrote:
I've been noting the recent progress in the quest for invisibility.
The methods I've read about so far involve microscopic prisms, but I've
realized there's another necessary component which we already seem to
have, at least to a degree: the ability to eliminate a reflection.
I just got new glasses a week or so ago, and they have that
anti-reflective coating on them. It's almost like the lenses aren't
even there when they're totally clean. So that would definitely be
something the microscopic prisms would need to have. Perhaps two birds
could be killed with one stone and they could make the microscopic
prisms _from_ the anti-reflective material.
Just a thought, laterz...
If one were to make microscopic prisms for use in invisibility, I
think they'd have to make them anti-glare anyway. Just another hurdle,
unless whatever reaction that formed the prisms just happened to make
them anti glare, too.
If an invisibly living skin could be grown from stem cells, the GOP
would be all over it and hoard it for themselves.
SunYata ! from Earth, watching America.
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