Invisibility : the history and science of how not to be seen /
"Is it possible for something or someone to be made invisible? This question, which has intrigued authors of science fiction for over a century, has become a headline-grabbing topic of scientific research. In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J. Gbur traces the science of...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- In which I made a bad prediction
- What do we mean by "invisible"?
- Science meets fiction
- Invisible rays, invisible monsters
- Light comes out of the darkness
- Light goes sideways
- Magnets and currents and light, oh, my!
- Waves and wells
- What's in an atom?
- The last of the great quantum skeptics
- Seeing inside
- A wolf on the hunt
- Materials not found in nature
- Invisibility cloaks appear
- Things get weird
- More than hiding
- Appendix A: How to make your own invisibility device!
- Appendix B: Invisibibliography.
