Invisibility Cloak [NEWS]

News appeared today that scientists have the ‘potential’ and ‘know-how’ to design an invisibility cloak just like the one that featured in the Harry Potter films. Personally, I think too many people would abuse the power of invisibility given half the chance, myself included. Apparently scientists could use a £4.9 million grant (given to them for research aimed at looking into the ‘bending light’ phenomenon) to make the cloak.



Professor Pendry, the leader of the project and a world-leading physicist said, “I anticipate this technology will do things we already do, but do them better and cheaper. For hundreds of thousands of years we have used chemistry to alter materials, and we have taken this as far as it can go” Behind closed doors though, I’m pretty sure the professor just wants to take a trip to the changing rooms of the female professors. Still; £4.9 million well spent.

I asked some fellow students, “If you had the invisibility cloak for a day, what would you get up to?” Answers included:

“I don’t actually know..”

“I’d sneak into MI5 / FBI?”

“I’d have to do something that would help the world. I’d rob money and give it to Africa, and then steal a plane and parachute onto the top of a boat full of Somali pirates. And fight them.”

“Probably stand in the corner of something?”