"It is simply impossible that the same 'material object' can be transferred over the internet, " he wrote in his ruling.

BBC: Redigi screengrab

Light can either be guided around or cancelled by a material that makes an object invisible to an observer.

BBC: 'Cloaking' idea traps a rainbow

Over hundreds of thousands of years, this object accumulates enough material to become a planet.

WSJ: Possible New Planet Spotted Under Formation

The conclusion: The blob was an object embedded in the material around the star, suggesting a nascent planet.

WSJ: Possible New Planet Spotted Under Formation

Two, I had a knack for remembering what kind of packing material was best for which fragile object, and I immediately understood why it was better that personal-size bags of chips be torn vertically, while family-size bags be torn horizontally, and where the tabs should be located to al-low each sort of tearing.

NPR: Chapter 1

The conclusion: The tiny bright blob was an object still embedded in the disk of material around the parent star, suggesting a planet in the earliest stages of coming into being.

WSJ: Possible New Planet Spotted Under Formation

The meteor that crashed to earth in Russia was about 55 feet in diameter, weighed around 10, 000 tons and was made from a stony material, scientists said, making it the largest such object to hit the Earth in more than a century.

WSJ: Russia Meteor Was Largest in More Than a Century

The key change was the addition of copper strips to the metamaterial that shields an object from incoming light to create a better material, couple with a slight change in its orientation to solve a problem caused by dividing the metamaterial of the cloaking device into quadrants.

FORBES: Duke Researchers Perfect The Original Invisibility Cloak

Haofei Shi, the report's lead author, said the material "acts as a perfect black cloth that can completely conceal the 3D structure of the object".

BBC: Carbon nanotubes experiment results