The Guardian published an article describing the possibilities and impossibilities of several popular science fiction ideas. Teleportation, Time Travel, Alien Contact, Invisibility, and Precognition were the ideas of interest.

Two lines peaked my interest.

1. A quote from Einstein which I wish I had remembered yesterday when writing about the Virgle Mars Colony. "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

For the first time ever, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have developed a material with a negative refractive index for visible light. Ames Laboratory senior physicist Costas Soukoulis, working with colleagues in Karlsruhe, Germany, designed a silver-based, mesh-like material that marks the latest advance in the rapidly evolving field of metamaterials, materials that could lead to a wide range of new applications as varied as ultrahigh-resolution imaging systems and cloaking devic