• Question: why do you want to know if they can help us make invisability cloaks

    Asked by travpro12 to Mark on 17 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by floras.
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      Mark Hodson answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      Hi travpro12,

      I think it would be pretty cool to be able to make invisibility cloaks. The form of the calcium carbonate in the earthworm poo that I study could help me produce invisibility cloaks more easily than some of the ways currently being investigated due to the special properties of the calcium carbonate.

      Ultimately these sorts of things could be useful for protecting vulnerable targets from terrorist attacks for example.

      It all sounds like the stuff of science fiction but invisibility cloaks will be a reality in the next decade or so.

      cheers

      m

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