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Japan develops 100% transparent glass

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
That would be sweet to make sliding doors out of. 😉
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Until the inevitable happens and someone ends up in the emergency room covered in glass shards. 🙂
 
it isn't glass

The researchers have designed a prism of engineered material ? metamaterial comprised of an arrangement of nano-coils of precious metals such as gold or silver ? embedded in a solid glass-like material.
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Originally posted by: Mani
Originally posted by: Heisenberg
That would be sweet to make sliding doors out of. 😉
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Until the inevitable happens and someone ends up in the emergency room covered in glass shards. 🙂
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invisible glass shards...
 
Amusingly, around 10 years ago Games magazine ran as their April Fool's joke, an article about a puzzle called "Merlin's Sphere" which purported to be just such a material! When you assembled the pieces of the sphere together, it became almost invisible.

I guess now it's not so far-fetched anymore!
 
Originally posted by: virtualgames0
The most perfect glass for camera lenses and telescopes.
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Wouldn't it be utterly useless for camera lenses and refractive telescopes since that's how the lenses magnify light?
 
that'll be a b1tch to clean.

Good for a PC case though, as your stuff will appear to be just plain old floating in mid air. that's going to be a cool effect.

Think of the furniture implications. That's awesome.
 
Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: virtualgames0
The most perfect glass for camera lenses and telescopes.
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Wouldn't it be utterly useless for camera lenses and refractive telescopes since that's how the lenses magnify light?
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My thoughts exactly, Refraction is the key.

Though it might be good for an invisible lenscap or something to protect the actual lenses. Same with Fiber optics. Those work by having the light refract of the surface of the glass to keep travelling. No refraction would mean no fiber optics.
 
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