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Behold the Appearance of the Invisibility Cloak

John Pendry

Magicians make things on stage vanish with mirrors and sleight of hand.

Physicists are learning to make objects disappear by crafting artificial blind spots from strange new fabrics that deflect revealing electromagnetic waves... "These 21st century vanishing acts rely on mathematical concepts that tweak the geometry of space and time to make light waves behave in unexpected ways. 'These techniques allow you to dream of rearranging light and gives you the technology to realize that,' says Sir John Pendry [Physics], a theoretical physicist at London's Imperial College, who pioneered the field.

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