The Invisible Man - Wells George Herbert.pdf - Cove Systems
The Invisible Man - Wells George Herbert.pdf - Cove Systems The Invisible Man - Wells George Herbert.pdf - Cove Systems
"Optical density! The whole subject is a network of riddles--a network with solutions glimmering elusively through. And being but two-and-twenty and full of enthusiasm, I said, 'I will devote my life to this. This is worth while.' You know what fools we are at two-and-twenty?" "Fools then or fools now," said Kemp. "As though knowing could be any satisfaction to a man! "But I went to work--like a slave. And I had hardly worked and thought about the matter six months before light came through one of the meshes suddenly--blindingly! I found a general principle of pigments and refraction--a formula, a geometrical expression involving four dimensions. Fools, common men, even common mathematicians, do not know anything of what some general expression may mean to the student of molecular physics. In the books--the books
that tramp has hidden--there are marvels, miracles! But this was not a method, it was an idea, that might lead to a method by which it would be possible, without changing any other property of matter--except, in some instances colours--to lower the refractive index of a substance, solid or liquid, to that of air--so far as all practical purposes are concerned." "Phew!" said Kemp. "That's odd! But still I don't see quite ... I can understand that thereby you could spoil a valuable stone, but personal invisibility is a far cry." "Precisely," said Griffin. "But consider, visibility depends on the action of the visible bodies on light. Either a body absorbs light, or it reflects or refracts it, or does all these things. If it neither reflects nor refracts nor absorbs light, it cannot of itself be visible. You see an opaque red box, for instance, because the colour absorbs some of the light and reflects the rest, all the red part of the light, to you. If it did not absorb any particular part of the light,
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that tramp has hidden--there are marvels,<br />
miracles! But this was not a method, it was an<br />
idea, that might lead to a method by which it<br />
would be possible, without changing any other<br />
property of matter--except, in some instances<br />
colours--to lower the refractive index of a<br />
substance, solid or liquid, to that of air--so far<br />
as all practical purposes are concerned."<br />
"Phew!" said Kemp. "That's odd! But still I<br />
don't see quite ... I can understand that thereby<br />
you could spoil a valuable stone, but personal<br />
invisibility is a far cry."<br />
"Precisely," said Griffin. "But consider,<br />
visibility depends on the action of the visible<br />
bodies on light. Either a body absorbs light, or<br />
it reflects or refracts it, or does all these things.<br />
If it neither reflects nor refracts nor absorbs<br />
light, it cannot of itself be visible. You see an<br />
opaque red box, for instance, because the<br />
colour absorbs some of the light and reflects<br />
the rest, all the red part of the light, to you. If it<br />
did not absorb any particular part of the light,
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