From:	00myrichards@*******.BITNET
Subject:	invisiblind
Date:	Tue, 11 May 1993 13:44:25 -0500

From: BSUVC::01JPDAVISON "Thank God I'm a country boy." 11-MAY-1993 13:43:59.
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To: 00MYRICHARDS
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Subj: invisiblind

>A friend of mine just pointed out why it would actually be impossible for
>the invisibility spell to work (in terms of physics) by bending the light
>around a person--it would blind the invisible person. Think about it, no
>incoming light means no incoming photons means nothing is hitting your eye
>and causing a electric impulse to be sent to your brain to be translated into
>an image. Sure you'd be invisible, but you'd be in the most total darkness
>ever experienced.

>Spectre
>Steve Huth

Y'know, I'm not sure that anybody really cares, but I read about this
whole bending-light-waves-around-yourself-renders-you-blind issue a few years
back in Marvel comics' Fantastic Four. Marvel posed the question on the letters
page, in reference to their character the Invisible Woman, and it became a key
topic of said mail for months. As I recall, there were about 9 billion rational
explainations offered.

mike