Science Fiction to Science Fact: Invisibility Cloaks

Description

Explores how advance in science and technology could theoretically allow scientists to develop real-life invisibility garments

Do you lose yourself in daydreams about invisibility cloaks, tractor beams and replicators? Do you wish that you could have been born a few hundred years later, when all of these things are a reality? This series explores the real-life science behind some of our favourite science fiction gadgets and shows how a future filled with space shuttles, solar sails and bionic limbs might be closer than you think!

Table of Contents

1. Invisibility cloaks: the fantasy
2. Blind spots: the science of sight
3. Light waves: colours of the rainbow
4. Invisibility cloaks: the reality
5. Camouflage: hiding in plain sight
6. Active camouflage
7. Tricks of the light
8. The mirage cloak
9. Invisibility rings: holes in our vision
10. The Rochester lens cloak
11. Magic mirrors
12. Invisibility cloaks: the future
13. Glossary
14. Index