Overcoming the speed of light to unleash the Hyde within?
Invisibility, another super power that people have desired for thousands of years may just yet be the plausible outworking of science and ingenuity. I have always found it interesting that the desire for invisibility is almost always enjoined to that of increasing one's fame and personal glory. The flip side of the coin of such an innocuous ability defies the everyday experience and begs the hungry soul to embrace unregulated or uncontested freedom. It's almost schizophrenic, if you think about it. One side respecting order, social responsibility and soul integrity. The other, operating under the cloak of ego, anarchy, and unrestrained self-interest. Call me crazy (no pun intended) but I connect the above pattern of the personal war of invisibility with the film Fight Club. It may seem random to connect invisibility cloak theoretical development with Fight Club's protagonist and Tyler Dirt but the motivations of Dr. Jekyll and the monstrous Hyde coincide within every man and should this actually become a practical, effective garment, I see shadows in the side vision. It seems that man is always trying to overcome light but to what end? Of course I love that an undergraduate is tinkering on the idea in a lofty physics vault at St. Andrews. Makes me feel just bloody great.
see also : Light speed hurdle to invisibility cloak overcome by student
Tuesday 09 August 2011
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