Category Archives: Invisibility

How Not To Be Seen: the video!

Posted on March 21, 2020 by

Continuing my series of uploaded videos, tonight I recorded a version of my How Not To Be Seen: The history and science of invisibility seminar, which I’ve given and revised for probably close to ten years now!  I’ve shared links … Continue reading →

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My Google Hangout Seminar on Invisibility Physics!

Posted on September 23, 2015 by

In lieu of more substantial writing on the blog, here’s a link to another presentation I gave! I was invited to give a Google Hangout Seminar at the University of Central Arkansas on “How Not to be Seen: The History … Continue reading →

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Null-field radiationless sources: even more invisible than invisible?

Posted on January 21, 2015 by

I spend a lot of time talking about invisibility on this blog, as it is a subject near and dear to me: I did my PhD work, completed in 2001, on early historical forms of invisibility.  I like to tell … Continue reading →

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Cloaking from earthquakes?

Posted on July 2, 2014 by

There has been a lot of excitement among researchers about the science of invisibility over the past decade, and a variety of designs of invisibility cloaks have been suggested since the groundbreaking 2006 papers.  I’ve talked a lot about invisibility … Continue reading →

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My appearance on WCCB TV!

Posted on October 10, 2013 by

In the annals of “shameless self-promotion,” I should note one more appearance I’ve made in local media!  Yesterday, a journalist from WCCB TV in Charlotte stopped by my office to interview me on camera about invisibility physics and the interesting … Continue reading →

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A brief NPR interview with me on invisibility!

Posted on September 26, 2013 by

Continuing my recent streak of self-aggrandizing posts, I wanted to point out (again, for those who don’t follow me elsewhere) that I recorded a short interview the other day for our local Charlotte NPR affiliate, WFAE, on the physics of … Continue reading →

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Dr. SkySkull talking invisibility in the News & Observer!

Posted on September 22, 2013 by

This has already been making the rounds via other social media today, but for those who aren’t on Facebook or Twitter (lookin’ at you, Dad!), I was interviewed by the News & Observer about invisibility physics and the article appeared … Continue reading →

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Hiding from time? New design of a “temporal cloak” makes waves

Posted on June 11, 2013 by

Is it possible to make something invisible in time as well as in space?  It is a fascinating question, a provocative question, a mind-boggling question… wait… what exactly does it mean to “make something invisible in time?” We’ll get to … Continue reading →

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Physics demonstrations: cloaking device?

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

I’ve spent a lot of time on this blog talking about the optics of invisibility, both hypothetical and actual.  Though a number of forms of invisibility have been considered in both science and fiction for over a hundred years, the … Continue reading →

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Physics demonstrations: invisibility on the cheap!

Posted on March 15, 2013 by

I spend a lot of time talking about invisibility on this blog, and it really has become a fascinating and vibrant area of optics, with lots of remarkable results.  However, most of those results are theoretical, and the experimental results … Continue reading →

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