A question to the intelligent people?

Question

The scientists have cracked Invisibility (actually right now they are right now in Infancy they will make a perfect invisible cloak in the near future) Invisibility was a part of fiction just a few years ago.
What else can be discovered in the future by them.
Below is a link for people who have not read about the new Discovery:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/sci_tech/newsid_2730000/2730639.stm

Answer 1

While I think it's pretty cool, this isn't really "cracking invisibility" -- and I don't even if know if it counts as the infancy of that technology.

Basically, what this is, is a walking "screen projector" where the shirt/coat top acts as the screen.

There are a lot of problem areas to be overcome for it ever to become true invisibility:

1. Distortion -- clothes fold, crease, bend, etc., making the view distorted and noticeable.

2. Coloration -- in the picture, the shirt tints green and not normal and thus noticeable.

3. Full-body coverage -- the wearer needs to covered in entirety, including the "openings" normally allotted so that the person might see. (Note: A similar problem occurred in HG Wells' story, "The Invisible Man" -- Griffon made his retinas transparent, but retinas do not work if the light passes through them, rendering the Invisible Man blind. Here, the person would need an alternative way to "see" -- and that sighting apparatus would still necessarily be visible.)

4. Weight and durability of clothing -- the technology, since it would be very very expensive, has to still be light enough to wear comfortably as well as highly durable.

5. Other ways of seeing: Infared, as someone else mentions -- heat would have to be contained/regulated.

I think it's awesome they came this far, but we're not even close to producing a real invisibility suit yet.

Answer 2

For those who doubt the significance of this advance, they should take a look at the early television pictures. From those early beginnings, it seemed impossible to have the HDTV that is available now.

But back to your invisibility cloak. Since vision is based on light energy, which can be manipulated (take a look in your mirror for a miracle of an earlier age), it's reasonable that such a technological breakthrough would be possible. The same can be said for anything that enters our senses. We are already moving toward virtual reality that stimulates the touch and temperature receptor nerves, in addition to the sight and sound receptors. (In the future, look forward to making love with your partner while he/she is across the continent.)

The biggest hope I have, but have no conception of how it will be possible, is the "transporter" from Star Trek. Could living matter, complete with memories, be disassembled into energy and reconstructed elsewhere into exactly the same person? I think that's the holy grail that science fiction has set forward for physics to conquer.

Answer 3

What else will be discovered in the future? I believe science will validate the existence of spiritual forms (for want of a better word, ghosts) within the 11+ dimensions outlined in the M Theory, many of which overlap and interact with our own. I think science will find a way to record our dreams and allow us to play them back as we experienced them. Time travel to the past will be a reality, at least as an observor.

I heard the other day that we will eventually have implants that will make us so intelligent that we can memorize the entire works of Shakespeare easily, think like a computer and have total recall. Sounds like a nightmare to me, unless it comes with an on/off switch.

Answer 4

This technology has been in the works for several years, and China isn't the only one making these advances in invisibility. The DuPont company came out with a proto-type material a couple of years ago for the D.O.D. This cloaking device is still useless against infra-red technology, unless it can cloak , or modify heat signatures. It does however, make for interesting ops, for the unaided eye.

Answer 5

So many new technologies , we are always on the edge of new breakthroughs that may change the world and still people are hanging back with the primitive brutes believing in bogus sky gods and other superstitious silliness...face up to the thrill of science and get ready to be astounded.

By the way... this guy is not so invisible you might miss him...but given time I guess, it's a good way to blend into foliage or whatever background.

Answer 6

I heard about this on the science channel. Pretty cool stuff, I heard the US army has some light bending technology also. A proto-type was used to hide a tank. Using heat waves sort of like heat waves that you see coming off the street during a hot summer day. Not really that incredible, it's always been here all we are doing is using the phenomenon for our benefit, just like most things in science.

Answer 7

Think about it this way, Jules Verne wrote about fax machines, submarines (modern versions), and spaceships going to the moon; All over a hundred years ago. Back then it was out of reach, fantasy - now its all reality. Who knows what else that is fantasy now will be invented in the next 100 years; instant transportation of Matter, Time Travel or FTL (faster than Light) Engines? I wouldn't put it past them.

Answer 8

Wow!! Thats absolutely fantastic!! Maybe they could come up with something that helps guys read womens minds sometimes!
I think the next thing will be populating the moon or another planet. Or how about space ships travelling at light speed!! They were part of fiction so you never know....

Answer 9

I think they will install microchips in peoples brains and hooking them up to a mainframe within the next 10 years.
It could help with criminals minds,eductional programs that last 2 minutes and cure cancer etc.

Answer 10

1. Define intelligent.

2. What does invisibility have to do with spirituality?