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Sci-Fi to Real
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you "will" what you imagine and at last you create what you will. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Today, science is finally catching up to science fiction. What was impossible thirty years ago, scientists now believe may actually happen. Everything from satellites and space travel to cyborgs and robots existed in the "imagination" of science fiction writers before they became "real".
So what's next? How about making yourself invisible? If you've seen the demonic Harry Potter movies, you're probably familiar with the magic cloak that makes Harry invisible.
In Hogwarts land, spells, wands and invisibility cloaks are common place...but what about in the real world? Well, science has some good news for anyone wishing to make themselves invisible like Harry.
Optical camouflage technology has been developed by scientists at the University of Tokyo using the same principles as the blue screen used by Hollywood filmmakers. If you want people to see through you, just film what's behind you and project it onto your body.
A more advanced technology is nanotech metamaterials. Objects are only visible when they reflect, scatter or absorb light. If properly constructed, a cloak made of metamaterials would re-route visible light around an object -- much like a rock diverting water in a stream. For now, the technology only works in two dimensions and in the ultra-petite size.
Sci-fi is thrilling entertainment but it's hard to find a scientist who believes that "invisible cloaks" and "beam-me-up" technology would ever be possible in the real world.
Michio Kaku, admired futurist and theoretical physicist, is a Star Trek fan. To some extent, scientists have already worked out how it might happen, says Kaku.
Scientists have already teleported photons, along with atoms of cesium, rubidium and terbium, as far as 1800 feet. Teleportation is very complicated but current science has proven that it’s possible on a small scale. In another couple of centuries, it’s possible that we’ll be able to teleport whole people.
Mexican relativist Miguel Alcubierre came up with the solution of bringing the stars to the traveler rather than taking the traveler to the stars: essentially folding space to make the distance traveled much shorter.
Does time and space even exist outside of the mind? There is no matter. There is just our perception of atoms working together and creating an image in our mind. It is as though we create the universe as we go. Our perception creates whatever it is we are searching for or another doorway that keeps the search going. Everything we search for only creates more questions because there is no truth. There is only perception. That is why we can't answer questions like which came first - the chicken or the egg.
"There is no truth. There is only perception" ~ Gustave Flaubert
"We believe, empower and attract what our rulers have taught us to imagine is true" ~ Grace Powers
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Imagination is everything. Without it nothing could have been invented. Imagination is the preview to life's coming attractions" ~ Albert Einstein.
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