Editing Metamaterials and the Architecture of the Impossible (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Analyzing</span> ==
* '''The Seismic Metamaterial Shield''' — Metamaterials are not restricted to light and sound; they can bend physical kinetic energy. Earthquakes travel as massive seismic waves through the earth. Civil engineers are theorizing "Seismic Metamaterials." By digging a massive, highly mathematically calculated grid of deep boreholes and concrete rings into the soil surrounding a city, the geometry of the ground itself becomes a metamaterial. When the earthquake wave hits the grid, the geometry physically bends the devastating seismic energy *around* the city, leaving the skyscrapers perfectly untouched while the surrounding countryside shakes.
* '''The Flat Lens Revolution''' — The camera bump on the back of an iPhone exists because traditional optics require thick, curved pieces of glass to focus light. The thicker the glass, the better the zoom. Metasurfaces (2D metamaterials) completely destroy this optical limitation. By carving millions of microscopic, carefully angled nano-pillars into a perfectly flat, microscopic piece of glass, the flat surface mathematically bends the light exactly like a thick, heavy, curved DSLR lens. Metasurfaces will eventually render all curved glass lenses obsolete, allowing for microscopic, perfectly flat cameras with massive optical zoom.
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