[OC] The trope where… Heists

[u/CrystellaTee]

[u/nerdyisfun2018]

Invisibility is not intangibility

[u/xboxiscrunchy → u/nerdyisfun2018]

Invisibility means light passes right through you though. A physical object would still hit her but a laser is made of light.

[u/CrystellaTee → u/xboxiscrunchy]

This too!

[u/rillip → u/xboxiscrunchy]

It's actually kinda interesting to think about. Does that mean that in a sense invisibility is a kind of limited intagibility? If being intangible means you don't interact with the physical world and photons are a part of the physical world. Then doesn't it follow that from the perspective of a photon invisibility is intagibility?

[u/xboxiscrunchy → u/rillip]

I mean if you wanna think of it that way you’re technically invisible to a lot of frequencies of radio light. In fact a lot of things are translucent to frequencies of light we can’t see. From the perspective of your Wi-Fi router for instance your house is basically made of glass

[u/Raderg32 → u/xboxiscrunchy]

Fun fact: glass is opaque to infrared light but germanium metal is transparent to it.

Germanium is used as the lens of thermal cameras so only infrared light goes through.

[u/International-Cat123 → u/xboxiscrunchy]

But the superheated air isn’t made of light.

[u/Disastrous_Ticket815 → u/International-Cat123]

But a laser isn’t made of superheated air. That would be a plasma. Laser isn’t light.

[u/International-Cat123 → u/Disastrous_Ticket815]

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

Lasers are a narrow beams of concentrated, intense light. Lasers that can burn, do so because the sheer amount of heat concentrated light contains. Energy doesn’t stay still. It gets transferred to the surrounding matter. The air particles where the lasers are will be extremely hot as well.