Gravitational Lensing as a Mechanism For Effective Cloaking
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2012-10-30 v2 Optics
Popular Physics
Abstract
In light of the surge in popularity of electromagnetic cloaking devices, we consider whether it is possible to use gravitational lensing to cloak a volume of spacetime. A metric for such a spacetime geometry is presented, and its geometric and physical implications are explained.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1108.3793,
title = {Gravitational Lensing as a Mechanism For Effective Cloaking},
author = {Benjamin K. Tippett},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.3793},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
5 pages, 6 figures