Harry Potter's invisibility cloak closer to reality now (video)

Nov 10, 2011

Health and Science , Videos

Kodoom.com quoting Yahoo's News Blog: A University of Texas Dallas scientist, Ali Aliev, has demonstrated that some carbon nanotubes when heated rapidly will allow the objects beneath them effectively disappear! This is a technology that would delight Harry Potter fans everywhere --an invisibility cloak! Aliev explains that the invisibility cloak exploits the "mirage effect," A highway can become so hot that small circles that look like puddles of water appear in the road. That happens when the road is so hot that the surface bends the light around it, so that the driver sees the reflected sky instead of the pavement. The carbon nanotubes create a similar effect (video below):

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