Good. Because now we can sneak up on those pesky Romulans:
Scientists create cloak of invisibility
In this first successful experiment, researchers from the United States and England were able to cloak a copper cylinder.
It’s like a mirage, where heat causes the bending of light rays and cloaks the road ahead behind an image of the sky.
"We have built an artificial mirage that can hide something from would-be observers in any direction," said cloak designer David Schurig, a research associate in Duke University’s electrical and computer engineering department.
In this case, researchers used microwaves to try to detect the cylinder. Like light and radar waves, microwaves bounce off objects, making them visible to instruments and creating a shadow that can be detected.