Originally posted by MadMathMind Geez, can't you guys detect sarcasm?
ALL THE TIME, when someone writes in a sarcastic way... (didya catch my sarcasm there, did ya? did ya?)
The fstoppers article is well written and without much hype, aside from the title which was probably handled by an editor rather than the author of the article.
The article on the Harvard web site is completely over the top, and properly hyped just like those written by any other university press office as it is their job to help the research and alumni dollars flowing in.
And yes, I could have gotten a lot more technical in my response, but unless you've had some exposure to metamaterials they can hard to understand because they do seem to allow you to violate laws of optics or mechanics, until you get a better understanding of how they work.