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- Title
Material Witness: Dream on.
- Authors
Ball, Philip
- Abstract
The article presents the author's insights on fundamental physics explorations using theoretical imagination. He cites that discoveries in fundamental physics usually used virtual realm, which does not consider whether it could be possibly made. However, he notes that skeptics contend that theoretical imagination of things is unproductive. Nevertheless, a paper demonstrates how metamaterial cloaks, which allow object to take on the appearance of another object, can be created through principle.
- Subjects
PHYSICS; PHILOSOPHY of science; MATERIALS science; THEORY; METAMATERIALS; IMAGINATION
- Publication
Nature Materials, 2009, Vol 8, Issue 7, p542
- ISSN
1476-1122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nmat2480