quoted 9 lines I don't get it, looks more like a optical trick than anything else ...
>>> I don't get it, looks more like a optical trick than anything else ...
>>
>>Well, do you think an invisibility cloak is anything but an optical
>>trick? I imagine the first "real" invisibility cloak will somehow project
>>all occluded images appropriately rather than make the person transparent
>>(which would probably be lethal).
>
>Yeah, they should really just call the things transparency cloaks. but
>saying "I wish I were transparent" sounds... wrong.
Assuming it's nonlethal, making yourself transparent would pose another
interesting difficulty - effective blindness for the duration of
transparency. If all visible light is either passed directly through
you(transparency) or bent around you (a la "Predator"), no light would be
reflected or absorbed by the necessary structures in your eye to facilitate
sight. If you can see in the ultraviolet or infrared ends of the spectrum,
that's a different story.
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