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The Skeptics Guide #160 - Aug 13 2008

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Invisibility of Meta Materials

There's people talking about being able to boost the internet capacity or speed tenfold using meta materials. They theorize you could use this for quantum computing. You could boost the power of microtrips and antennas and photolithography. But again, the invisibility thing is just the sexy headline, but doesn't necessarily have anything to do with this. And in fact, may never actually be an application of these materials.

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