“It’s very simple: instead of surrounding what you’re trying to clock with a thick metamaterial shell, we surround it with one layer of tiny antennas, and this layer radiates back a field that cancels the reflections from the object.” (source) Another breakthrough occurred in China in late 2013, where Chinese scientists were able to make both a fish and cat invisible by bending light around the animals.(3) The Independent Post in the UK reported that anonymous researchers working at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics told the Post that he had been contracted to develop “full invisibility” technology for hypersonic jets saying: “We are invisible people studying invisible technology.” (source) Many scientists have said that a full out ‘Harry Potter,’ style invisibility clock is essentially impossible, but it turns out that they might just be wrong.
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