19th October 2005, 3:07 PM
Wow, that's pretty amazing, considering the exact same properties that make metal metallic are the ones that make it opaque. Seriously, I'm weirded out. I wonder if it also can't conduct electricity any more.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)