Primitive invisibility cloak - also the key to saving Earth from humanity's peeling away of the ionosphere
Solomon
it must be scaled down to the nanolevel. That's within your grasp,
now, so here it goes:
For best effect, the entire thing should be constructed of refractive
metallic glass - just about any type will do, each type of metallic
glass setup has its own array of distortion and impairing effects, the
specific metals to use will depend on the environment in which they
are intended to function. These instructions will assume that you are
using metallic glass for all parts, except perhaps for the springs
needed for the ball-bearings to function. But those can be made with
metallic glass if you approach it the right way, I'm just not sure
you're capable of that just yet.
Start with a slice of a metallic glass cylinder with specific
refractive properties all its own. The rounded ends of the cylinder
are meant to be directed outward/inward - they are the exchange point
for the light that is being absorbed to and re-emitted from the
opposite side of the object being cloaked.
Around these rings, a series of smaller rings need to be attached,
these rings connecting to yet another ring that is attached to a
fiber-thin rod of metallic glass.
The rings on the rods of glass and the rings on the emission cylinder
will both connect to a common central ball-bearing ring. The
ball-bearings, themselves, will be prisms, each possessing a specific
refractive capacity. As the joint moves, the ball-bearings will
"click" the emission cylinder and the transference rod into place
relative to one another.
You will end up with a grid consisting of billions of microscopic
versions of this - it will, if constructed properly and with enough
miniaturization, feel like a sheet of cloth, and what you will be able
to see of it via the inevitable distortion effects will look like
cloth.
The joints should start with a central joint in the middle of the
cloth, around which layers of joints will be added in a
concentric-circle fashion. This is the simplest method. As long as you
have each series of joints confined to its own specific circle,
semi-invisibility will not be difficult. You can calculate the
diffractive properties of each prism individually, or in series. I
don't need to tell you what refractive index a 180 degree arc of any
given circle of joints in this cloth needs to be - not if you know
enough about this sort of thing to understand what I'm saying and how
it will lead to semi-invisibility. In any event, you start out with
the cloak, newly built, flat on a surface, with every emission
cylinder being connected via the other joints on the circle it is
built into to a specific emission cylinder on the opposite side. Each
emission cylinder bears a specific relationship to only one other
emission cylinder in the entire cloak - if anything happens to its
complementary cylinder on the opposite side of the cloak to change the
index of refraction between them, invisibility will fail.
In any event, starting with the new, flattened cloak, the ball
bearings are the key. Each rod connects to two emission cylinders, and
each emission cylinder connects to four rods (for the most part -
every so many circles will require additional rods on some of the
cylinders to account for the expanding number of cylinders in each
row). The emission cylinders are the crux of the grid that forms the
cloth.
When joint "A" at rest is angled in such a way as to give ball-bearing
y the refractive index of x, joint "B" on the other side of either the
rod or the emission cylinder must bear the complementary refractive
index of z. Any time x is altered, z must be altered in an inverse
fashion in order to counter it and maintain the overall integrity of
the refractive index of the particular ring in question. So if the
angle of joint "A" is changed by 1 degree, which would alter the
refractive index of x by an x1 amount, the angle of joint "B" must be
changed by -1 degrees in order to alter the refractive index of z by a
z-1 amount. (This is a very crudely approximated mathematical
language, but one I trust you will understand if you happen to be
anyone who has any potential of actually constructing this thing). The
refractive indices of the ball-bearings are what makes this possible -
the ball-bearings transfer the light from the rods to the cylinders.
When joint "A" which connects rod rA to cylinder cAB is at a joint
position of x, the ball-bearing transferring the photons from rA to
cAB has a refractive index of x1. The ball-bearing on the other side
of the cylinder will have a refractive index of z1. When the joint
bends, a new ball-bearing slips into place with its own refractive
index (x-1), and the joint on the opposite side of either rA or cAB is
constructed to flex at a complementary angle, the ball-bearing
slipping into place in that joint now possessing a property of z-1.
Okay, I said it was simple. And really, if you were building it on a
scale where you could actually see and manipulate the cylinders, rods
and prisms with your hands, it -would- be simple. It sounds more
complex than it is once you iron it out. I can't put it into language
any simpler than this, because it's not intended for just -anyone- to
work out. Only those who are able to understand it.
So now, finally, how will this help us with the sun? A large-scale
version of this sort of cloak -can- be built, and it can be built to
maintain orbit around Earth, as a shield. It would scatter as much of
the incoming sunlight all the way around us, harmlessly, as we could
possibly want it to. Additionally, this sort of cloak can also serve
to conceal Earth's presence from any potentially dangerous passers-by
who might be in the mood for stirring up trouble. Either way, it would
be win-win.
Well, I've said too much now, I think. I already know this won't be
followed, nobody is going to try to build this. Unless there's
something I just can't see about it right now. But I had to get this
out there, figured it was worth a try.
Good luck to you again. You are, by the way, in the first year of what
some have referred to as the "tribulation". Earth's warming trend is
about to accelerate.
Crap. :-/
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