Marshall Barnes' National Lab Day Projects with Light

ABOUT the VIDEO About the PHYSICS BEHIND THE SCENES - BEXLEY Physics In Trouble HOW DID THEY DO IT? The Worm in the Wormhole Time Machine Bexley Photo Gallery 2008 Innovation Award Nominees Local Business Support The_Problem Marshall Barnes Brings The Reality Of Fringe to Life National Lab Day IS A REAL MASSIVE DYNAMIC POSSIBLE? Tech Companies Support National Lab Day #1 NLDScientist Bettering Our Schools? NLDHubble NLD Grandview Heights NLD Light Refraction Grandview Heights High School and the Reality of Time Data Analysis at Summit Academy The Nature of Time Experiment USASEF Gallery ADVANCED CONCEPT ADVENTURES NLD at AAAS The "Fringe" Of Science IS ANY OF THIS REALLY "REAL"? A BRIEF HISTORY OF FRINGE SCIENCE ON THE REAL FRINGE Marshall Barnes, R&D Eng = The Best In STEM The Oppenheimer Strain WHAT'S TO COME IN THE REAL FRINGE Where It All Began Marshall Barnes at the USASEF Business STEM Support Critical Thinking At Bexley Press Press Room 2 Press Room 3 D.C. TIme Party Mars Society Conference Education Visionary Grandview Heights and the Oppenheimer Strain Photo THE UNIVERSE AS "IT'S OWN MOTHER" Mars Society Conference In Grapevine, TX Time Runs Backwards Marcon 2012 OSU Wexner Center Math and Science Club Beats Hawking! Time Machine Prototype At Grandview Heights High School STEPHEN HAWKING'S FEEDBACK MISTAKE 14th Annual Mars Conference Road Trip SPonsored by GreyHound

The Science of Invisibility

  

Top National Lab Day Scientist Marshall Barnes is one of the leading researchers in the world in the area of optical invisibility, having discovered a new way to show how light can be bent to render mirages of transparency and invisibility in 1994. He has since improved his methodology to the point of practical application for security, paramilitary and military purposes and so does not reveal the advanced methods to the public. What he does do is show how light can be manipulated to cause things to appear to be becoming invisible for educational purposes and is the first to do so in the world.

 

In Columbus, Ohio, his 1994 research and its history is in the Santa Maria Experiment Exhibit, the first and only exhibit in the world on successful optical invisibility. Housed in the Santa Maria Education Visitor's Center, it is seen by thousands of visitors every year, while they look at the world's only full scale replica of Christopher Columbus' flagship. The name of that exhibit is taken from the fact the initial 1994 experiments culminated with the successful rendering of the Santa Maria replica looking invisible  when view through modified diffraction material.

 

PhysicsSet Goals
  • Light Energy
  • Canterbury, NH (100+ miles away)
  • Physics, In Classroom
  • I'm looking for a scientist to help us explore light- how it can be reflected, refracted, or absorbed. I don't have a lot of    materials and certainly nothing with a "WOW" factor.
Teacher Teresa Minogue of the Canterbury Elementary School in Canterbury, New hampshire, wanted someone to deliver a "Wow"
factor for her class, regarding various aspects of how light can be effected. Of course no one can deliver a "Wow" in regards to the physics of light better than Marshall Barnes. He not only secured an arrangement with Rainbow Symphony to deliver frames of diffraction film to Miss Minogue's class for them to experiment with, he also made a little video to demonstrate what could be done with the frame from the location of the Santa Maria Experiment exhibit when he learned that Miss Minogue's class wouldn't be able to do a live Skype session over the Internet with him.

You have received a message from Teacher Teresa M. about your project Light Energy:

From: Teacher Teresa Minogue

Date: 14 May 16:43

Hi Marshall,

I have the viewers you sent- pretty cool! Thank you so much for sending them!  

Teresa

The National Lab Day Invisibility Events Made Possible by Rainbow Symphony

See Marshall do this live and other amazing science exhibits at the 2010 USA Science and Engineering Festival!