![]() Interestingly, Liu’s alma mater, Duke University, has not considered revoking the PhD he earned, despite the accusations against him. Neither US intelligence nor David Smith believes him. Liu’s project has garnered so much interest from the Chinese government and military that one of Xi Jinping’s first stops after becoming China’s president in 2012 was to Liu’s lab in Shenzhen, where the “invisibility cloak” was being developed. Upon the successful completion of his PhD in 2007, Liu giddily returned to China and founded a company KuangChi Science Ltd, which has been valued at a whopping $6 billion, with an optical and electromagnetic material design identical to the one that the Pentagon was funding for David Smith of Duke University. The Defense Department had spent millions of dollars helping Smith in his “basic research on optical and electromagnetic material design.” If the US military could create aircraft and other vehicles from Smith’s technology, it would help to keep the Americans ahead of their rivals in stealth technology. The Pentagon was interested in Smith’s “invisibility cloak” because the metamaterial in question is invisible to microwave signals. ![]() In fact, there is ample evidence to suggest that China may have leapfrogged the Americans, thanks to a combination of sly industrial espionage and copious investments in state-funded research and development of the technology. Even though the US has invested in this technology longer than China, the Chinese are applying it in the real world. Quantum invisibility is derived from an exotic metal known as a “metamaterial.” And whichever country (or company) can develop this technology first will have immense strategic advantages over the rest of the world’s countries.Īccording to Britannica, metamaterial is an “artificially structured material that exhibits extraordinary electromagnetic properties not available or not easily obtainable in nature.”Ĭurrently, the United States and China are racing each other for dominance in the vital metamaterial market. But we are living in an era where yesterday’s science fiction is quickly becoming science fact. When someone hears this term, they instantly think of science fiction.
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