"Eureka! It's invisible! It's invisible!!!"

Scientists at the university of Pennsylvania have invented a "cloaking device". It basically modifies the light scattered by an object, rendering it instantly invisible.

Only one drawback: the object must be smaller than the wavelength of the light it's in. Visible light has a wavelength of less than 1/1000th of a millimetre. Objects that small are too small to be seen with the naked eye.

Er..... Hello!? Have the boffins at Penn Uni spent so long looking at CGI represenations of subatomic particles on ther 17" plasma screens that they've missed the obvious?

posted by Blakey UK @ 2:22 pm