Re: Real world thermoptic camo - invisibility cloak

[Gary Warner <gar () askgar com>]

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Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Mon, 04 May 2009 05:03:44 +0300, Gadi Evron said:
> "In the experiments reported in Nature Materials, the cloak was used to cover
> an area that measured about 3.8 microns by 400 nanometers."
>
> So we can make a microscopic piece of dust dissapear. ;)
>
> (For comparison - human hair is in 30-100 micron range...)

Which is actually considerably smaller than a Romulan WarBird.  (I was
showing the article to a Trekkie-friend/student and he pointed out the
size to me as well.)

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