Re: negative permeability and permittivity

[Doug Craigen <dcc@ESCAPE.CA>]

Peter Schoch wrote:
> I need to ask for some help and clarification.  I just finished an
> article in Science News (Vol. 157, March 25, 2000, p. 198.) that
> describes an experiment done at UCSD that had a negative permeability
> and permittivity.
>
> They state that this condition makes everyhting "reverser and
> reverser".  They also state that negative permittivity has been observed
> before now.

Anybody without Science News handy, and who (of course) wants to read
what the claims are before commenting, can check out the following
websites.

http://www.sciencenews.org/20000325/fob5ref.asp - announcing the article

http://www.aip.org/physnews/graphics/html/composite.html - picture of
the material

and for some details ...
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mccomposite.htm - the press
release from the UCSD news desk - a summary which Bill told us about a a
few days ago (how do you do it Bill?)