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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Salford
A spacetime cloak, or a history editor
Third in the list cited as [http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2011/dec/16/physics-world-reveals-its-top-10-breakthroughs-for-2011]. The exciting idea that events, not just objects, can be cloaked was drafted by Prof. McCall of Imperial College, but expressed in abstract mathematical language. McCall approached Prof. Boardman to assist in clarifying the interpretation of this beautiful idea, so that it could be made more widely accessible. Boardman’s bottom-line physical approach resulted in a complete redrafting of the work, using a standard form of Maxwell’s equations. The resulting paper initiated the first experimental demonstration of the effect by Alex Gaeta at Cornell, USA [Nature, 2012; 481 (7379)].
