Invisibility Cloak: A Technological Breakthrough

Recently several leading scientists announced they have moved a step closer to making an invisibility cloak. By using the natural force that makes one sock of a pair sometimes disappear in the washing machine, scientists have developed pairs of invisibility cloaks, which they then wash together. The quantum uncertainty of the washing machine cycle then sometimes makes one of the invisibility cloaks disappear. However, as with socks, which sock or cloak will become invisible, and when, is still very uncertain.

As one scientist said:

Sometimes, as with socks one of the cloaks will disappear in the wash, which means you get an invisibility cloak, other times you get the two cloaks you put in back, other times you get two cloaks back, one of which you’ve never seen before. On a few occasions, we have even found – after washing – that we are left with a cloak that we cannot lose, even if we get a government official to leave it on a train. When that official gets home, thinking he has left the cloak on the train he discovers he still has it with him, even if he has lost the memory stick containing vital top-secret information wrapped inside the cloak when he left it on the train.

As with the socks that become invisible in the wash, scientists believe that the visible part of the cloaks slips through the wormhole in reality that exists inside every washing machine through which socks and other similar items become invisible. The socks – and other items – still exist in this universe, but they simply become invisible and thus remain inside the washing machine until they reunite with their visible part when it slips back through the wormhole and the sock seemingly magically reappears as if from nowhere.

Scientists also believe that this wormhole phenomenon also explains the sudden mysterious appearance in the wash of items never seen before when an invisible sock in the washing machine somehow reunites with a visible part that is not its own, thus appearing as something completely different and never before seen.

All scientist now have to do is develop someway of detecting when an invisibility cloak is in the washing machine before it gets washed again and reunited with its visible part. Therefore, scientists are trying to develop a washing basket capable of holding several invisible cloaks without any of them getting lost or slipping back through the wormhole to re-entangle with their visible part.