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Article: Harry Potter's invisibility cloak could be a reality in two years.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- August 21, 2009
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Byline: ANI
London, Aug 21 (ANI): A University of St Andrews scientist has made fresh advancement in bringing Harry Potter's invisibility cloak closer to reality.
Professor Ulf Leonhardt, who has won funding to develop a real version of the magical device, describes his work as the "ultimate optical illusion'.
He is planning to use refractive metals to make light waves flow around an object, as happens in a mirage, when blue light from the sky is bent by heated air to create the impression of a blue pond in the desert.
Pushing the laws of refraction and reflection to the limit, he plans an extreme version of the affect that appears ...