Lost's invisible island based on science fact?

The link and the article below appears to suggest that the invisible
island in LOST might be based more on science than pseudoscience or
outright science fiction. As soon as I read it, I suspected immediately
that the show's producers had to know about this. There are simply too
many similarities for it to be otherwise. You decide.

May 26, 7:16 PM (ET)

By ANDREW BRIDGES

WASHINGTON (AP) - Imagine an invisibility cloak that works just like the
one Harry Potter inherited from his father. Researchers in England and
the United States think they know how to do that. They are laying out
the blueprint and calling for help in developing the exotic materials
needed to build a cloak.

The keys are special manmade materials, unlike any in nature or the
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. These materials are intended
to steer light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation around an
object, rendering it as invisible as something tucked into a hole in
space.

"Is it science fiction? Well, it's theory and that already is not
science fiction. It's theoretically possible to do all these Harry
Potter things, but what's standing in the way is our engineering
capabilities," said John Pendry, a physicist at the Imperial College
London.

Details of the study, which Pendry co-wrote, appear in Thursday's online
edition of the journal Science.

Scientists not involved in the work said it presents a solid case for
making invisibility an attainable goal.

"This is very interesting science and a very interesting idea and it is
supported on a great mathematical and physical basis," said Nader
Engheta, a professor of electrical and systems engineering at the
University of Pennsylvania. Engheta has done his own work on
invisibility using novel materials called metamaterials.

Pendry and his co-authors also propose using metamaterials because they
can be tuned to bend electromagnetic radiation - radio waves and visible
light, for example - in any direction.

A cloak made of those materials, with a structure designed down to the
submicroscopic scale, would neither reflect light nor cast a shadow.

Instead, like a river streaming around a smooth boulder, light and all
other forms of electromagnetic radiation would strike the cloak and
simply flow around it, continuing on as if it never bumped up against an
obstacle. That would give an onlooker the apparent ability to peer right
through the cloak, with everything tucked inside concealed from view.

"Yes, you could actually make someone invisible as long as someone wears
a cloak made of this material," said Patanjali Parimi, a Northeastern
University physicist and design engineer at Chelton Microwave Corp. in
Bolton, Mass. Parimi was not involved in the research.

Such a cloak does not exist, but early versions that could mask
microwaves and other forms of electromagnetic radiation could be as
close as 18 months away, Pendry said. He said the study was "an
invitation to come and play with these new ideas."

"We will have a cloak after not too long," he said.

The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency supported the
research, given the obvious military applications of such stealthy
technology.

While Harry Potter could wear his cloak to skulk around Hogwarts, a
real-world version probably would not be something just to be thrown on,
Pendry said.

"To be realistic, it's going to be fairly thick. Cloak is a misnomer.
'Shield' might be more appropriate," he said.

Ken from Chicago...

What does a cloak look like from the inside?