SHELL GAME. A shell filled with a metamaterial (not shown in diagram) may render invisible a spherical region (inner ball)and whatever's in that region. The hypothetical shell forces light rays (dark lines) to detour around the cloaking region, but they then resume their paths as though nothing had blocked them.
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