Nighi: I did my PhD work on crude invisibility in 2001 before it was cool. Back then there was widely thought that you couldn't make things invisible. But people found out and demonstrated or at least rediscovered that if you make the right material, light can just go in without reflecting. And that was a big piece of making invisibility work.
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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