Showing posts with label cosmology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cosmology. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Researchers Create Portals to Other Universes
Science Daily: In which Those Who Wonder About the Universe bring us ever closer to science-fiction and fantasy!In the research paper, the researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Fudan University in Shanghai describe the concept of a "a gateway that can block electromagnetic waves but that allows the passage of other entities" like a "'hidden portal' as mentioned in fictions."
The fact that this comes out of a scientific article and not some video game manual freaks me out to no end (in a titillatingly good way):
The gateway, which is now much closer to reality, uses transformation optics and an amplified scattering effect from an arrangement of ferrite materials called single-crystal yttrium-iron-garnet that force light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation in complicated directions to create a hidden portal.
WUT??? They stole that line straight from Star Trek. We're going to be attacked by species 8472, aren't we.
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Labels: cosmology, electromagneticalatism, electromagnetitism, fantasy, fi, physics, Portal, research, sci-fi
Labels: cosmology, electromagneticalatism, electromagnetitism, fantasy, fi, physics, Portal, research, sci-fi
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