The Importance of Transparency in Wigs

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The idea of perfect invisibility would be that you create an object or a cloak that there's no possible way you could detect it with visible light. People are pushing the definition more towards something closer to transparency where it's very see through and it's very hard to see, but it could still in principle be detected. So if you're looking to buy a lace front wig and you're wondering why the transparent option is cheaper than the HD lace option, well, I just learned that the transparent one is less invisible. It's more noticeable. The HD WIGs are higher quality and thinner lace in front, which means less attenuation, which means you will have to pause, drag race

Invisibility cloaks. Transparent frogs. Stealth bombers. Gorilla mischief. Theoretical optical physicist and Invisible Photologist Dr. Greg Gbur joins Alie to chat about light, illusions, secret technology, science fiction inspiration, terrible camouflage, great movies, historical mishaps, and even a few great household life hacks – and why you should go read a book on your porch. Perhaps his book, Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not To Be Seen.

Visit Dr. Greg Gbur’s blogs, Skulls in the Stars and Science Chamber of Horrors, and follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Instagram and TikTok

Buy Dr. Gbur’s book, Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not To Be Seen, on Bookshop.org or Amazon

His 2019 book, Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics, is also available on Bookshop.org and Amazon

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