Invisibility Cloak
Susan Miller <constancevigilance@yahoo.com>
constancevigilance at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 30 21:14:22 UTC 2002
No: HPFGUIDX 48995
vaseemf at y... writes:
>One of the things that truobles me is how Harry can see the
> cloak. If light passes through it or around it he shouldn't be
> able to see it.
>
For those who get National Geographic, in this month's edition, there
is an article that discusses, among other things, "Active
Camouflage". This is a garment, looking remarkably like a cloak, that
is made from spider silk. There is some kind of technology added to
it so that it projects to any viewer the view that is behind it,
rendering the wearer pretty darn close to invisable, other than a
slight distortion. Thus, muggle technology directly simulates magic
in the real world! :) But maybe the invisibility cloak does something
similar?
The article doesn't address the throwing of shadows that brought up
this thread in the first place, but in the pictures in the magazine,
people stand close enough to walls so that that is less of a problem.
Maybe Harry and co. do something similar?
By the way, the spider silk is created by genetically engineered
goats. Is this the result of Aberforth's experiments? Just wondering.
~ Constance Vigilance ~
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