Admittedly, today's post isn't anything research-based or anything. It's a webcomic that mentions metamaterials. It's chucklesome but only if you look really closely at the final panel's reveal of the flowers' true colors.
Not surprisingly (if you're a regular xkcd - the source of the comic - reader) metamaterials are real. I need to do more research before I find out whether the effect shown in the comic is possible.
Here's what I've found so far in thirty seconds of research...
- History of metamaterials
- Metamaterials and the wave nature of things
- Optical metamaterials
- Weisner group's optical (meta)materials page (which is definitely over my head)
- ExplainXKCD.com where I assume a more in-depth explanation will be posted soon
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