Cloak of Invisibility Successfully Tested
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
WASHINGTON — Scientists are boldly going where only fiction has gone before — to develop a cloak of invisibility. It isn’t quite ready to hide a Romulan space ship from Captain James T. Kirk or to disguise Harry Potter, but it is a significant start and could show the way to more sophisticated designs.
In this first successful experiment, researchers from America and Britain were able to cloak a copper cylinder.
It’s like a mirage, where heat causes the bending of light rays and cloaks the road ahead behind an image of the sky.
“We have built an artificial mirage that can hide something from would-be observers in any direction,” designer David Schurig of Duke University said.
