Invisibility Cloak Blurs Line Between Magic and Science (w/Video)

Friday, May 1, 2009 - 14:21 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- The great science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously noted the similarities between advanced technology and magic. This summer on the big screen, the young wizard Harry Potter will once again don his magic invisibility cloak and disappear. Meanwhile, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California Berkeley will be studying an invisibility cloak of their own that also hides objects from view.

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