Released on = June 9, 2007, 5:18 pm

Press Release Author = The Thought of Infinity

Industry = Education

Press Release Summary = New exhibit planned to feature 1994 research into
invisibility.

Press Release Body = For Immediate Release: June 10, 2007

Columbus Santa Maria, Inc and the Thought of Infinity Group To Open Invisibility
Exhibit

Dateline, Columbus,OH: Beginning in mid-June, The Thought of Infinity Group think
tank will begin installation of a permanent exhibit entitled The Santa Maria
Experiment at the Santa Maria Seeds of Change Education and Visitor Center in
downtown Columbus, OH on the riverfront. The exhibit will feature two display panels
showing the scientific research led by R&D engineer Marshall Barnes in 1994 that
proved that refraction of light would make solid, opaque objects look invisible,
proving true the statements given by an anonymous scientist to writer William Moore
back in the late 1970s. The Santa Maria replica was the largest object that Marshall
tested this theory on, resulting in photographs and video tape which have astounded
people across the U.S., Canada and beyond.

The exhibit will feature a variety of newspaper articles featuring the Santa Maria
photographs as well as scientific diagrams explaining how the process is
accomplished. This approach is so unique that Marshall was invited to give a
symposium on it in 1996 at Columbus State Community College that was sponsored by
its biological and physical sciences department.

Also included with the exhibit will be a DVD that people can watch there at the
center, as well as purchase a home video version at the souvenir counter, along with
post cards and a booklet on the research. Actress Rhoda Cronenbach
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2214261/ has been selected to host the DVD which will be
called The Santa Maria Experiment and Rainbow Invisibility.

Columbus Santa Maria, Inc already has its own sponsors that help it operate, which
include Kroger, Staffmate Online, AEP, Gregory Electric, and Environmental
Management Services, Inc. among others. This new project presents a unique
opportunity for sponsors to get high visibility even when the Visitor Education
Center is closed during the off season. Sponsors will have their logos appear at the
display area as well as on the covers of the DVD and booklet and on the back of the
post cards. They will also be listed on the web site that will be launched and have
links to their own sites from there. The Santa Maria Experiment web site will be
linked as well from the official Columbus Santa Maria, Inc web site at
www.santamaria.org . Already the Robert Weiler Company www.rweiler.com and Grandview
Chiropractic http://www.cols-yellowpages.com/clients/32569.html have signed on with
many others considering it as well. The retail mark-up on the products will go
toward the maintenance of the Santa Maria Seeds of Change Education and Visitor
Center.

The exhibit will get international attention due to the intense current interest in
invisibility research. A recent CNN poll asked whether the search for invisibility
technology would ever be productive and 87% of nearly 4,000 respondents answered
that they believed that it would. A search at Yahoo! using the words \"scientists\"
and \"invisibility\" rendered dozens of hit from such news agencies as MSNBC, FOX
News, ABC News, Space.com, USA Today, LiveScience.com, National Geographic, The New
York Times, The Seattle Times and the BBC among many others. The press agency Fame
Plan has been hired to handle the publicity on the project which is expected to draw
well over 1,000,000 hits in a year to well over 100 hundred American newspaper and
news outlets sites across the web with dozens more in the English speaking world and
beyond. The Santa Maria Experiment is unique in that it is not theoretical, as most
of the news reports on scientific research into invisibility technology are, but is
functional and practical applications are being pursued now by Marshall that have
potential uses in law enforcement, military, hunting and beyond.

\"This exhibit is just the beginning of a new wave of projects that will put Columbus
on the map as a true 21st Century center for creative technology and research,\"
Marshall says. \"The Thought of Infinity has more planned for 2008 and beyond."



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