If you were to make the entire electromagnetic spectrum invisible through an object, then you'd have to have materials serving every band of light in that electromagnetic spectrum. So that would be a problem. You usually don't see people looking at sort of super broadband invisibility cloaks. They're really happy right now if they can study a cloak that'll block or make invisible some parts of the spectrum and try to learn from that.
Can you make something invisible? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Negin Farsad discover the science behind invisibility with professor of physics and optical science, Greg Gbur. What would real-life invisibility look like?
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