At 01:45 am 20-03-05 -0600, you wrote: >From the newsletter on the Minnesota Tesla Society > > > Invisibility Shields Planned by Engineers
<snip> >The concept is based on a "plasmonic cover," which is a means to prevent >light from scattering. (It is light bouncing off an >object that makes it visible to an observer). > But surely, you can stop the light "bouncing" by painting the object matt black and absorbing the light. But a black object is visible to an observer assuming the background is illuminated. Am I missing something? Frank Grimer

