Via Livescience.com:
The concept of a superlens came originally from Sir John Pendry in 2000 - although Milton and his colleagues Nicolae Nicorovici and Ross McPhedran conducted closely related studies back in 1994 - and the concept has been studied extensively. Yet no one had realized the cloaking properties until they were discovered through the research by Milton’s team.
The concept of a superlens cloak is a long way from a workable device, but the integrity of the mathematical concept has sent some experimentalists into the laboratory to try and turn the theory into reality. So far, the groups working in this area are not ready to publish papers, but they’ve accomplished enough to keep trying.
“We’re along way off from the Star Trek* device but some of the experimental results achieved so far are surprising and exciting,” Milton noted.
*RAH was a Star Trek fan, making this on topic.
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June 24th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
The Link in your post isn’t too clear on what is going on, at least to me. Here are two others that I found easier to understand. One form the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4968338.stm and one from Live Science http://www.livescience.com/technology/080606-bts-milton-superlens.html.
I think I saw the first references about total cloaking for radio and micro waves a year ago or so. I think the all frequency light wave stuff is still far in the future.
July 19th, 2008 at 1:29 am
I read similar article also named nblog » Life is getting more like Star Trek every day, and it was completely different. Personally, I agree with you more, because this article makes a little bit more sense for me