The antimagnet uses a superconducting material that blocks the internal magnetic field of an object and several dampening layers to block the effect of the superconductor on the external magnetic field. Sounds complicated, and it is, but it could save your life some day.
Take, for example, a person with a pacemaker who needs an MRI. The magnetic field of the MRI would damage the pacemaker and potentially harm the patient. Likewise, the pacemaker's metal would interfere with the MRI's magnetic field and throw off the machine's results. A magnetic cloak could potentially negate these effects and let patients with a pacemaker receive a successful MRI scan.
It would also work to protect military ships from mines that detonate when they detect a magnetic field. If the magnetic field is cloaked, then the mines can't detect it and there's no devastating explosion.
The cloaking technology is in the design stage and will move into production so it can be tested in the real world.
3 comments:
Ever since reading Timothy Zahn's Hand of Thrawn series I've became enamoured with cloaking devices. Maybe the real life Thrawn of the future is still to born!
I can see a lot of potential for this to be abused.
very interesting
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