to be invisible

[dannyday5821]

This is just an idea...but i was wondering...

obviously to be invisible as such isnt really possible (unless theyve done it in some crazy classified government research which we wouldnt know about anyway!)

but i was thinking the nearest we could get would be the illusion of invisiblity. Would someone appear invisible if they wore something that had a highly relfective mirror like surface? covered top to toe? Now, if you wore something like this, stood in the middle of a snowy scene, i should imagine you would be very hard to spot, if not almost impossible.

would the same work if you stood in the middle of an urban scene, with buildings of different colours, cars, other people and everything else?

has this been tried somewhere by someone?

could i test my own theory somehow? Im not sure what sort of material i would use though...

[squarebear]

Thge trouble with that is you would have an image of what is in front rather than what is behind you, so people would be able to see themselves in you.

Last time I heard anything, the closest scientists had come to invisibility was to have a suit fitted with thousands of tiny cameras on the back which projected on to the front of the suit.

I don't know how convincing this would appear.

[whiffey]

I think you might look like a mirror standing in the middle of the street. Why not look at camouflage and what chameleons do? Dress up as a building.

[squarebear]

Or you could do like the tramps do round here and get steaming drunk and shout incomprehensibly at people.

People just walk by as if the tramps are invisible.

[R1Geezer]

what do you mean invisibility isn't really possible? The klingons do it all the time, looked pretty real to me!

[Kim A]

Try turning into an woman over about 45. We're all chuffing invisible........................

[kn0bbyn0nuts]

Have they not already got a tank that takes thousands off images from one side off it then relays them to exactly the same spot on the other side off it hence rendering it invisible

[whiffey]

Yes they have. Science reaches Basildon.

[andy-hughes]

In Colin Wilson's novel 'The Mind Parasites', the two main characters render themselves 'invisible' by deflecting attention away from theselves by mental control.

It works in the way that you pass someone in the stree, you are aware probably of their gender, but you don;t actually notice enough about them to recognise them again, so to all intents and purposes, they are 'invisible' - noticed, but not seen.

Interesting idea.

[kn0bbyn0nuts]

Here you go dannyday


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-490669 /Army-tests-James-Bond-style-tank-invisible.ht ml

[Toureman]

Harry Potter can do it.