We call it a plane, but the truth is we can't see it. We have research such as what they had in Harry Potter,. whereas you put on this invisibility cloak. This was also shown in a James Bond film, I forgot which he can make his Aston Martin disappear. But really, you're just diverting, bending the light to the front so that. Dabending the light around it. And it means you should still be able to shoot it. It's not the bullets not going to say, hey, where'd the car go?
Is it possible to make something invisible? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore transparency, how we measure time on Earth, and how airplanes have changed.
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