X-Message-Number: 29223 From: "John de Rivaz" <> Subject: New superlens opens door to nanoscale optical imaging, high-d... Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 12:42:40 -0000 The basis of all this is "negative refractive index" which if anyone had suggested it seriously in the 1970s, he would have been considered a crank. It enables optical lenses and other components with properties previously thought as impossible as perpetual motion. http://www.innovations-report.de:80/html/berichte/physik_astronomie/bericht-43432.html This shows that limitations such as the wavelengths in the visible spectrum of light don't pose the barriers to optics that were previously supposed. It is on these sorts of changes in what was previously thought of as impossible that cryonicists rely. -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy, Nomad .. and more Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=29223