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Nothing like your home town being famous only for a Bugs Bunny bit and a Neil Young song. It may be a run down giant barrio but wait never mind can't remember the positive thing again.
Curved light drives boffin one-upmanship
For four years, scientists have been on an international race to exploit a property of a peculiar kind of light called an “Airy beam”. Now, not one, but two groups of researchers are laying claim to the prize. The beam, named after 19th century scientist Sir George Biddell Airy, was first observed in 2007. At the time, it was …
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Tuesday 16th August 2011 08:08 GMT Anonymous Coward
invisibility
I think this research open up the prospect of invisibility as well. In principle if you have a light source behind an object and the light bends around the object before arriving at the observer, the object around which light bends becomes invisible.
Unless of course there are other light sources which make the object visible.
Or am i too far into the future of this technology?
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