>> ^wraith:

Did she just say that you CAN compress water into a smaller space?


That was a bad analogy; unless you're a physics person. More like throwing a pebble into a pond and yet watch it hit the ground in the pond with no waves. The material structure and atomic setup allow for photons to hit one side without disturbing "the pond" (a.k.a. the atoms) nearly at all; meanwhile, it it is re-emitted as was on, where, or at the point scientists wish it--hence invisibility.

Look up NIMs or what they say in the video. Meta-materials are awesome.

(And no on the water, not unless you put it under pressure first. It's hard to shrink atoms -- density however ...)

Negative Index Materials ("NIMs") have been mostly explained with wave propagation inside the material. "Sort of" like a photon coming into a circular two doored building. When it comes in both doors open and unlock, but it closes it's door (giving off heat I would think; here). Then only able to come out it's door. It is the material that does the neat stuff as it changes the way light is able to propagate inside the structure.

The structure just happens to meet some peculiar conditions to get this to work (equaling constants and what-not; like a prism in someways).

That's how I've understood it (this is recent news, ~less than one or two years maybe). Awesome interview.

>> ^BoneyD:

A lot of chick flicks would fail the Bechdel Test as well, btw...
This video goes towards confirming what I've felt in my gut about films for a few years now. More specifically, the lack of female role models in them. For example, try to think of the last kids film that had a female as the protagonist. The last I can think of is Labyrinth (though I'll concede there's probably also been a few since then).
Take this list of kids films for instance and try to count 'em out:
http://www.criticker.com/?fl&view=all&filter=gy10zp5x4x3x2zod



Alice in wonderland, Princess and the frog, Little Mermaid, Coraline, Hanna Montanna the movie, Bratz the movie, The Golden Compass, Nim's island, Nancy Drew, Mulan, Flicka, The Princess Diaries, then any disney movie princess sequel ect... Just to name a few.

>> ^brycewi19:
He failed to point out that there is NO extra "I" in ALUMINUM!!!
It's <ah-loo-muh-nim>
not <al-yu-min-ee-um>


ah-loo-muh-nim? Are you quite sure? I haven't heard it pronounced like that in USA or UK/rest-of-world

He failed to point out that there is NO extra "I" in ALUMINUM!!!

It's <ah-loo-muh-nim>

not <al-yu-min-ee-um>

>> ^Duckman33:
^ I know I'm dating myself here, but weren't Pong consoles out before anyone owned a PC? Like in the 70's?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim