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Okay, gang! What is on for today? First, Duke University scientists, in conjucntion with a College of London physicist, John Pendry, announced the development of a "cloaking device" . Technically, they used negative-index-of-refraction metamaterials. See the
EE Times article and this Blogs earlier notation "Cloaking Break through" about this fun stuff.
Also, click below to read about the Halloween postcard from
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope showing a worm-like structure. Very interesting! JPL.NASA.GOV: Feature StoriesOkay, so you want more odd stuff? Earlier this year, in February, there was a conference in
New Mexico of the Space Technology & Applications International Forum (STAIF). As reported by Space.com, there were discussions of the possiblity of faster than light travel using an Alcubierre warp drive using a rotating superconductor. See the Space.com article here and read about Mexican scientists warp drive proposal in an earlier post below.
HUBBLE!!!
Read about the upcoming decision to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. The previous NASA director made a bad decision to sacrifice Hubble after the last Shuttle disaster. There was a fear of more problems in orbit that would not allow an emergency docking with the ISS. A flight would allowan already built Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and the Wide Field Camera 3 to be installed. The current NASA director, a phycist and engineer may well reverse the former director's crazy decision to sacrifice Hubble.
Speaking of the Cosmos, see The Physics of Extra-Terrestrial Civilizations by physicist Michio Kaku.
