If you ever watched a movie from or played a video game you
have seen an invisible cloak in use. An invisible cloak is cloak that someone
would put on and become invisible to naked eye. As much as this cloak is a futuristic
sci-fi thing its actually being made in Germany. Tiemo Bueckmann, a researcher
and PhD student in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is making this happen. He
invented a material in which is a matrix of long, thin, tiny cones. When someone
applies pressure on these cones they collapse, and any object beneath becomes
undetectable. It is a solid that acts like a liquid.
However there are many complications. One is that the liquid can only hide a
pea. Also you cannot use two by two matrix, you have to use there by three by
three and
only material on earth that can have that kind of matrix is liquid. It will
take long time for Tiemo or other researchers to invent something for full
human body and that is actually a solid, but the good news is that the research
is happening.
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