Roman Colosseum An Elastodynamic Cloak? (IMAGE)
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Roman arenas have survived in many earthquake-prone regions. Did the Romans inadvertently build seismic wave cloaks when they designed colosseums? Some researchers believe they did due to the arenas' resemblance to modern experimental elastodynamic cloaking devices.
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David Iliff, license: CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
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