Yeh, I heard about this, it sounded very interesting. You idea to restrict its use to the military isn't going to work, as there has already been a paper published as to how it would be possible. So any government (or someone with the money) could fund the making of this technology based on the same base as the one being made now. If the general public were able to produce one easily, it would lead to some bad consequences, like criminals etc, but this has been true for almost every invention, there has been some downside. However, hopefully by the time it is easy to produce these, the technology will be easily available to detect them.

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Wow, this is...well, I can only sum it up with "awesome". I heard a bit ago they'd teleported particles, now they can make invisibility cloaks! Technology seems to of sped up again. I feel it "slowed down" the past few years, since we have the same basic technoogy, but just increased. IE, faster computers, better camera phones, same old, same old.

But now it seems like we can improve even more!

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I didn't really get the article. But i do know that (or at least, i think i know that) the only way you can completely be invisible is if you completely absorbed all the light rays that is striking you. I would expect something bad to happen if you really manage to absorb all these light rays though (and along with every other ray that happens to pass by and strike you, like UV etc..).

It would be interesting to know how governments are going to react to this discovery though. Are they going to patent it like they do with DNA (up till the point where researching cures for genetic diseases becomes so monetarily un-do-able), or are they just going to totally restrict access to this technology to within a certain region. It is probably bound to get out sooner or later, wars would erupt, then someone finds a counter to this and the world ends with some leading nation with the counter beating everyone else up.

Yes, I guess I'm a little pessimistic.

 

 

 

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I disagree with you Caped_Crusaider, if there is only one weapon or technology which has the ability to destroy the world then it is more dangerous.
Have you seen a weighing pan, when weight on one side of pan becomes heavier, it is shifted in that direction. Similarly, when any nation gets these types of supernatural and unique power, then it will try to dominate and create threat/fear among other nations. It will try to become the boss and will try to do whatever it wants.
As an example you think about present weapon of mass destruction i.e. Nuclear bomb, now almost every nation has got this weapon, so every nation knows if he is going to use it against other then he himself is also not save.
As far as limiting these technology to some confined part of this world is concerned then I would say it is not possible. Again take example of nuclear bomb, its technology is with everyone, good or bad.
This will also develope an arm race and as we all know "Necessity is the mother of invention" so, whenever the necessity of developing weapons of mass destruction will come somebody will definetaly come out with a deadly weapon in his hand.

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It is the same tech, just taken much much farther. (PopSci FTW!) The one in PopSci could only cloak microwave rays. Basically, what it does, is takes the light hitting the cloak on one side and sends it through little tubes, so to speak, to the other side. So it looks as if there is nothing there.

It's much easier with microwave rays because they are only one frequency, whereas, light is hundreds. Whoever said they found a pic, please post a link? I'd really like to see this puppy in action.

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With the current technology how it is microwaves can not get through the "force field" at all making whatever is inside of it invisible to microwaves. But they did a test recently that said if microwaves can not get through the field from the outside they can not get through the field from the inside.

This translates to us using this as a claoking device in the following way: The technology would allow people or onjects tpo become invisible. But if people use it and they are surrounded by the force field they would not be able to see anything outside the field. This Occurs because of what I said above. The force field reflects the light so no light gets through the field. So the person trying to hide would be blind to the outside world. This is a definite disadvantage but this is a great leap in technology.

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