Do you think that through science there may be a formulae for invisibility?

Question

To expand on the question;I mean to find a way to make something `disappear` without using illusion.

Answer 1

If by formula you mean a chemical concoction then probably not. However, scientist have created a cloak of invisibility that not only makes an object visually invisable but also invisible to radar and their are working at making it invisible to infrared detection. Think predator, something close to that, only even more advanced

It sounds like you're talking about having something shift just out of phase enough so that its "not there." While I have no doubt that if humans survive long enough we will find a way to do something like that. It sounds like something that will take a very firm understanding of quantum physics and mechanics. But I doubt that we or our next couple generations will see an advanment that sophisticated without the help of another source artificially advancing our technology.

Answer 2

I'm skeptical of the concept presented on the "howstuffworks" website. I've seen this concept demonstrated at a trade show, and while it's a cool effect, it's a bit silly. To make it work, you basically need to take a video image of what's behind Mr. Invisible, then feed the image back into a projector which projects the image onto Mr. Invisible's cloak from the front. Then, provided you're standing more or less where the projector is located, you'll seem to see "through" the cloak (you're actually just looking at the projected image). I can't imagine this technique will ever be useful except as a stage trick.

A more promising technique is to bend the light that's impinging on you, so that it goes around you and spits out the opposite side. Since you are not blocking or interrupting any light beams, you are effectively invisible. One reader suggests warping space to do this--much too hard! Instead, just wear a cloak that bends the light around you. This is already very close to reality: See this article : http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000D3E81-8DF8-1537-8DF883414B7F0000&sc=I100322

Answer 3

It depends on what you mean by invisibility. A general way of causing any object to be invisible is probably impossible, but you can construct certain objects that are there but can't be seen. You need to bend the light rays coming from the back to the front of the object and then bend them back so they are straight. You can do this by cleverly providing an index of refraction gradient on both sides of the object. An example is a matched pair of concave and convex lenses. Separately, they are easy to see. Put them together and you can see right through them.

This does not mean that an object inside the two lenses is invisible, though. The light going through the middle of the lens pair is not bent, so it would hit the object and be absorbed.

Answer 4

The cloaking rationale used in Star Trek is actually pretty scientific, as far as the theory is concerns. If we can warp the space around an object than the light from behind the object will curve around and you can see what is behind the object without seeing that object (so the object will be invisible).
I would also suggest this link to see this phenomenon in the making
http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak.htm

Answer 5

What do you mean, "formulae?"

I'm sure at some point we will discover various materials that will have optical properties enabling the bending of light around an object. That's all invisibility is.

We already have fiberoptics, which are able to bend light through a tube. We just need to bend light around a surface.

Answer 6

for military purposes they are trying to build a material that will bend light around it making it look invisible. however they have only been able to do this for something the size of the width of a penny.
it works the same way solar lensing occurs

Answer 7

each time technological expertise advances it opens up extra questions that make us comprehend that with all all of us comprehend our cutting-edge information is in simple terms the tip of the proverbial ice burg. The extra we come across out approximately technological expertise, the nearer we come to proving that humanity won't be able to probable be the optimal order of intelligence - and the nearer we come to accepting that God no longer in common terms would have, yet could have designed each little thing.

Answer 8

Definitely not in reality but there is room for science to find a way of confusing the human mind into not seeing what it should , camouflage already does this to a certain extent ?