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2011-10-20

Invisibility in Fiction

"The main problems occur however when the invisible object is a person. That person will effectively be blind. Why? Because the person’s retinas are invisible, the light will go straight through and will not be converted to electrical impulses to be sent to the brain. OK, don’t make the retinas invisible, (this is what HG Wells did in the invisible Man) but then you hit other problems, in that light will be hitting the retinas from all angles and will not have been focused by the lens, (unless it’s not invisible). So again the invisible person will be blinded, this time by bright light."

http://www.sellingbooks.com/invisibility-in-fiction/

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