I have to admit – When someone brings up Harry Potter I tend to fangirl like crazy. I remember being secretly crushed to not receive my summons to Hogwarts on my 11th birthday. Time has just begun to healed the disappointment , but I would still love to be able to fly, levitate objects, clean my room with the sweep of a wand or go invisible. Would any of this be possible in the muggle world? Science is kind of like magic in a way – you put together all the different bits and pieces, you experiment, sometimes things go terribly wrong, there’s enormous potential and, like magic, it’s power can be abused. So I’m wondering – just how close are we to becoming wizards? I have been perusing the web, and here’s what I’ve found.
“Physicists in Texas have developed a method to make objects “invisible” within a limited range of light waves. It’s not Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak just yet, but scientists say it has a lot of potential.”
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/tech/invisibility-cloak
“Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists.”
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/tech/invisibility-cloak
“Think teleportation is a fictional concept reserved for plot twists in sci-fi novels or philosophical thought experiments? Think again. Not only is teleportation possible, but scientists in China have recently teleported a photon a record-setting distance of 97 kilometers, according to MIT’s Technology Review.”
just for fun:
“That’s right – the game from Harry Potter. Adapted by Middlebury College students in 2005, Quidditch is now played at over 300 universities and high schools in the United States and 12 other countries.”
http://www.internationalquidditch.org/
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