TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gbur,Gregory J
TI  - Invisibility: : the history and science of how not to be seen/ 
SN  - 9780300250428
AV  - QC406 .G38 2023
U1  - 535 23/eng/20230321
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New Haven: 
PB  - Yale University Press, 
KW  - Invisibility
KW  - Electromagnetic waves
KW  - Light
KW  - Physics
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE / History
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Optics
KW  - fast
KW  - Informational works
KW  - Trivia and miscellanea
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index; 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
N2  - "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 invisibility from its sci-fi origins in the nineteenth-century writings of authors such as H. G. Wells and Fitz James O'Brien to modern stealth technology, invisibility cloaks, and metamaterials. He explores the history of invisibility and its science and technology connections, including the discovery of the electromagnetic spectrum, the development of the atomic model, and quantum theory. He shows how invisibility has moved from fiction to reality, and he questions the hidden paths that lie ahead for researchers."--
ER  -