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The Physics of Invisibility
A Story of Light and Deception
eBook
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ISBN-13:
9781461406167
Veröffentl:
2011
Einband:
eBook
Seiten:
206
Autor:
Martin Beech
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
Reflowable eBook
Kopierschutz:
Digital Watermark [Social-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Introducing the scientifically new technology of "invisibility cloaking," this book shows how light can be manipulated to produce a distortion of images, causing them to vanish. The authors explore current discussion of the use and the ethics of invisibility.
The ability is see is fundamental to our very existence. How true our perceptions really are depends upon many factors, and not least is our understanding of what light is and how it interacts with matter. It was said that the camera, the icon of light recording instruments, never lies, and in the day of the glass plate and celluloid roll-film this might well have been true. But in this modern era, with electronic cameras and computer software, it is often safe to assume that the camera always lies. The advertising images that bombard our every waking moment are manipulated in shape, profile, color, and form. In this new era, light can be manipulated with metamaterials to make one object look like another or even cause that objects to vanish, literally before our eyes; not only can the image we see be manipulated, but so can the light itself.
Introduction.- Chapter 1: Of All Things Visible and Invisible.- Chapter 2: A Very Brief History of Light.- Chapter 3: Mirror Tricks, the Art of Cloaking and Seeing the Impossible.- Chapter 4: Maxwell's Marvelous Waves.- Chapter 5: The Metamaterial Revolution.- Afterword.- Appendices.- Index.