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Introduction

Given that the essence of the invisible lies in our inability to see it, the large number of cultural attempts to represent and mobilise it as metaphor presents an irony. The use of invisibility as a trope dates back at least to the legend of Gyges, discussed in Plato's Republic, written around 360 BC. Gyges discovers a ring that makes him invisible; the advantage this bestows helps him to win a kingdom. Ancient etymology indicates that the name of Hades, Greek god of the underworld, means ‘invisible’ and in mythology, a helmet, rather than a ring, enables Hades to escape detection (Roman & Roman, 2009: 182). More recently, H.G. Wells warned of its dangers, exploring the suspicion and havoc invisibility can wreak; Queen have sung about its appeal; and Harry Potter dons an invisibility cloak to vanquish dark forces in the first book. In philosophy, at least for Merleau-Ponty and Derrida, albeit in different ways, the possibility of perception relies on the difference between the visible and invisible (see Reynolds, 2004). After Adam Smith, economists refer to the ‘invisible hand’ of the market: indicating a supposedly self-regulating entity. In terms of identity politics the invisible is used as a marker of the marginalised and voiceless – unrecognised by the state or society and without power, they are effectively invisible. Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, for example, begins: ‘I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fibre and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me’ (1952: 1). As a result of all this cultural activity around the invisible, the strangeness, the absence, the alterity that attracts us, and encourages us to find ways to represent invisibility through existing paradigms, is undoubtedly domesticated. (more)

Invisible Web

Dirk Lewandowski and Philipp Mayr

Exploring the Academic Invisible Web

Jayant Madhavan, Loredana Afanasiev, Lyublena Antova and Alon Halevy

Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future

Makeuseof

10 Search Engines to Explore the Deep Web

Black Holes

Ted Jacobson and Thomas P. Sotiriou

Might Black Holes Reveal their Inner Secrets?

Alberto Sesana, Jonathan Gair, Emanuele Berti, Marta Volonteri

Reconstructing the Massive Black Hole Cosmic History through Gravitational Waves

J.Hillis Miller

Boustrophedonic Reading: Black Holes

Invisibility Cloak

Xianzhong Chen, Yu Luo, Jingjing Zhang, Kyle Jiang, John B. Pendry and Shuang Zhang

Macroscopic Invisibility Cloaking of Visible Light

Yangbo Xie, Huanyang Chen, Yadong Xu, Lin Zhu, Hongru Ma, and Jian‐Wen Dong

An Invisibility Cloak Using Silver Nanowires

Huanyang Chen and Che Ting Chan, Shiyang Liu and Zhifang Lin

A Simple Route to a Tunable Electromagnetic Gateway

Shuang Zhang, Dentcho A. Genov, Cheng Sun, Xiang Zhang
Cloaking of Matter Waves

Moti Fridman, Alessandro Farsi, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Alexander L.Gaeta

Demonstration of Temporal Cloaking

Dark Matter

Mark J. Hadley

Classical Dark Matter

Vincenzo Vitale, Aldo Morselli

Indirect Search for Dark Matter from the center of the Milky Way with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope

H. L. Helfer

On the Interpretation of the Local Dark Matter

Andreus Albrecht et al.

Report of the Dark Energy Task Force

Cosmos Video News Release

'Dark Matter 3D Map' Open in YouTube

Stealth

F. P. Neele, M. Wilson and K. Youern

'Stealth' Technology: Proposed New Method of Interpretation of Infrared Ship Signature Requirements

David Hambling

Vanishing Point

Gene Poteat

Stealth, Countermeasures and ELINT 1960-1975

Trevor Paglen

Invisible

YF-22 and YF-23 - Stealth Technology

Seeing and Unseeing

Holly C. Miller, Rebecca Rayburn-Reeves, and Thomas R. Zentall

What Do Dogs know about Hidden Objects?

Gary Lupyan and Michael J. Spivey

Making the Invisible Visible: Verbal but Not Visual Cues Enhance Visual Detection

Michael Wolf

The Transparent City

Geraint Rees

The Anatomy of Blindsight

Microscopic

Willard Wigan

Micro Sculptor

Z. Wang, W. Guo, L. Li, B.S. Luk'yanchuk, A. Khan, Z. Liu, Z. Chen, M. Hong

Optical Virtual Imaging at 50 nm Lateral Resolution with a White Light Nanoscope

What this Living Book Might've Looked Like if I Were a Physicist

'Invisibility', Physicsworld, Vol.24, No.7, July 2011

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 ==Introduction==
-Given that the essence of the invisible lies in our inability to see it, the large number of cultural attempts to represent and mobilise it as metaphor presents an irony. The use of invisibility as a trope dates back at least to the legend of Gyges, discussed in Plato's ''Republic'', written around 360 BC. Gyges discovers a ring that makes him invisible; the advantage this bestows&nbsp;helps him to win a kingdom. Ancient etymology indicates that the name of Hades, Greek god of the underworld, means ‘invisible’ and&nbsp;in mythology, a helmet, rather than a ring, enables Hades to escape detection (Roman &amp; Roman, 2009: 182). More recently, H.G. Wells warned of its dangers, exploring the suspicion and havoc invisibility can [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb3n0g2NenI&feature=related wreak]; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65why7alD3Y Queen] have sung about its appeal; and Harry Potter dons an invisibility cloak to vanquish dark forces in the first book. In philosophy, at least for Merleau-Ponty and Derrida, albeit in different ways, the possibility of perception relies on the difference between the visible and invisible (see Reynolds, 2004). After Adam Smith, economists refer to the ‘invisible hand’ of the market: indicating a supposedly self-regulating entity. In terms of identity politics the invisible is used as a marker of the marginalised and voiceless – unrecognised by the state or society and without power, they are ''effectively ''invisible. Ralph Ellison’s ''Invisible Man'', for example, begins: ‘I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fibre and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me’ (1952: 1). As a result of all this cultural activity around the invisible, the strangeness, the absence, the alterity that attracts us, and encourages us to find ways to represent invisibility through existing paradigms, is undoubtedly domesticated. [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/The_in/visible/introduction (more)] <br><br>
+Given that the essence of the invisible lies in our inability to see it, the large number of cultural attempts to represent and mobilise it as metaphor presents an irony. The use of invisibility as a trope dates back at least to the legend of Gyges, discussed in Plato's ''Republic'', written around 360 BC. Gyges discovers a ring that makes him invisible; the advantage this bestows&nbsp;helps him to win a kingdom. Ancient etymology indicates that the name of Hades, Greek god of the underworld, means ‘invisible’ and&nbsp;in mythology, a helmet, rather than a ring, enables Hades to escape detection (Roman & Roman, 2009: 182). More recently, H.G. Wells warned of its dangers, exploring the suspicion and havoc invisibility can [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb3n0g2NenI&feature=related wreak]; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65why7alD3Y Queen] have sung about its appeal; and Harry Potter dons an invisibility cloak to vanquish dark forces in the first book. In philosophy, at least for Merleau-Ponty and Derrida, albeit in different ways, the possibility of perception relies on the difference between the visible and invisible (see Reynolds, 2004). After Adam Smith, economists refer to the ‘invisible hand’ of the market: indicating a supposedly self-regulating entity. In terms of identity politics the invisible is used as a marker of the marginalised and voiceless – unrecognised by the state or society and without power, they are ''effectively ''invisible. Ralph Ellison’s ''Invisible Man'', for example, begins: ‘I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fibre and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me’ (1952: 1). As a result of all this cultural activity around the invisible, the strangeness, the absence, the alterity that attracts us, and encourages us to find ways to represent invisibility through existing paradigms, is undoubtedly domesticated. [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/The_in/visible/introduction (more)]
 ==Invisible Web==
-Dirk Lewandowski &amp; Philipp Mayr<br> [http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0702/0702103.pdf Exploring the Academic Invisible Web] <br><br> Jayant Madhavan, Loredana Afanasiev,&nbsp;Lyublena Antova &amp;&nbsp;Alon Halevy<br> [http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0909/0909.1785.pdf Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future] <br><br> Makeuseof<br> [http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-search-engines-explore-deep-invisible-web/ 10 Search Engines to Explore the Deep Web]
+Dirk Lewandowski and Philipp Mayr
+[http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0702/0702103.pdf Exploring the Academic Invisible Web]
+Jayant Madhavan, Loredana Afanasiev, Lyublena Antova and Alon Halevy
+[http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0909/0909.1785.pdf Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future]
+Makeuseof
+[http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-search-engines-explore-deep-invisible-web/ 10 Search Engines to Explore the Deep Web]
 ==Black Holes==
-Ted Jacobson and Thomas P. Sotiriou<br> [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1006/1006.1763v1.pdf Might Black Holes Reveal their Inner Secrets?] <br><br> Alberto Sesana, Jonathan Gair, Emanuele Berti, Marta Volonteri<br> [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1011/1011.5893v1.pdf Reconstructing the Massive Black Hole Cosmic History through Gravitational Waves] <br><br> J.Hillis Miller<br> [http://books.google.com/books?id=yhZTV07yZHQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=hillis+miller+black+holes&hl=en&ei=aCb_TbaDMcmY8QP86bGBDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Boustrophedonic Reading: Black Holes] <br><br>
+Ted Jacobson and Thomas P. Sotiriou
+[http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1006/1006.1763v1.pdf Might Black Holes Reveal their Inner Secrets?]
+Alberto Sesana, Jonathan Gair, Emanuele Berti, Marta Volonteri
+[http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1011/1011.5893v1.pdf Reconstructing the Massive Black Hole Cosmic History through Gravitational Waves]
+J.Hillis Miller
+[http://books.google.com/books?id=yhZTV07yZHQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=hillis+miller+black+holes&hl=en&ei=aCb_TbaDMcmY8QP86bGBDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Boustrophedonic Reading: Black Holes]
 ==Invisibility Cloak==
-Xianzhong Chen, Yu Luo, Jingjing Zhang, Kyle Jiang, John B. Pendry and Shuang Zhang<br> [http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1012/1012.2783.pdf Macroscopic Invisibility Cloaking of Visible Light] <br><br> Yangbo Xie, Huanyang Chen, Yadong Xu, Lin Zhu, Hongru Ma, and Jian‐Wen Dong<br> [http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1010/1010.2405.pdf An Invisibility Cloak Using Silver Nanowires] <br><br> Huanyang Chen and Che Ting Chan, Shiyang Liu and Zhifang Lin<br> [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0905/0905.1273v1.pdf A Simple Route to a Tunable Electromagnetic Gateway] <br><br> Shuang Zhang, Dentcho A. Genov, Cheng Sun, Xiang Zhang<br> [http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0801/0801.2223.pdf Cloaking of Matter Waves]<br> <br>Moti Fridman, Alessandro Farsi, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Alexander L.Gaeta<br> [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.2062v1.pdf Demonstration of Temporal Cloaking]
+Xianzhong Chen, Yu Luo, Jingjing Zhang, Kyle Jiang, John B. Pendry and Shuang Zhang
+[http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1012/1012.2783.pdf Macroscopic Invisibility Cloaking of Visible Light]
+Yangbo Xie, Huanyang Chen, Yadong Xu, Lin Zhu, Hongru Ma, and Jian‐Wen Dong
+[http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1010/1010.2405.pdf An Invisibility Cloak Using Silver Nanowires]
+Huanyang Chen and Che Ting Chan, Shiyang Liu and Zhifang Lin
+[http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0905/0905.1273v1.pdf A Simple Route to a Tunable Electromagnetic Gateway]
+Shuang Zhang, Dentcho A. Genov, Cheng Sun, Xiang Zhang<br> [http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0801/0801.2223.pdf Cloaking of Matter Waves]
+Moti Fridman, Alessandro Farsi, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Alexander L.Gaeta
+[http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.2062v1.pdf Demonstration of Temporal Cloaking]
 ==Dark Matter==
-Mark J. Hadley<br> [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0701/0701100v1.pdf Classical Dark Matter] <br><br> Vincenzo Vitale, Aldo Morselli<br> [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0912/0912.3828v1.pdf Indirect Search for Dark Matter from the center of the Milky Way with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope] <br><br> H. L. Helfer<br> [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0308/0308054v1.pdf On the Interpretation of the Local Dark Matter] <br><br> Andreus Albrecht et al.<br> [http://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/DETF_Report.pdf Report of the Dark Energy Task Force] <br><br>
+Mark J. Hadley
-Cosmos Video News Release<br>
+[http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0701/0701100v1.pdf Classical Dark Matter]
+Vincenzo Vitale, Aldo Morselli
+[http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0912/0912.3828v1.pdf Indirect Search for Dark Matter from the center of the Milky Way with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope]
+H. L. Helfer
+[http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0308/0308054v1.pdf On the Interpretation of the Local Dark Matter]
+Andreus Albrecht et al.
+[http://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/DETF_Report.pdf Report of the Dark Energy Task Force]
+Cosmos Video News Release
 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCgTJ6ID6ZA 'Dark Matter 3D Map' Open in YouTube]
 <youtube>gCgTJ6ID6ZA</youtube>
-<br>
+==Stealth==
+F. P. Neele, M. Wilson and K. Youern
+[http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz//handle/10289/3303 'Stealth' Technology: Proposed New Method of Interpretation of Infrared Ship Signature Requirements]
+David Hambling
+[http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2001/jun/07/physicalsciences.highereducation/print Vanishing Point]
+Gene Poteat
+[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st08.pdf Stealth, Countermeasures and ELINT 1960-1975]
-==Stealth==
+Trevor Paglen
+[http://www.paglen.com/ Invisible]
+[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5aytDSnuxk YF-22 and YF-23 - Stealth Technology]
-F. P. Neele, M. Wilson, &amp; K. Youern<br> [http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz//handle/10289/3303 'Stealth' Technology: Proposed New Method of Interpretation of Infrared Ship Signature Requirements] <br><br> David Hambling<br> [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2001/jun/07/physicalsciences.highereducation/print Vanishing Point] <br><br> Gene Poteat<br> [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st08.pdf Stealth, Countermeasures and ELINT 1960-1975] <br><br>Trevor Paglen<br> [http://www.paglen.com/ Invisible]
-<br><br>
-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5aytDSnuxk YF-22 and YF-23 - Stealth Technology]<br>
 <youtube>X5aytDSnuxk</youtube>
-<br>
 ==Seeing and Unseeing==
-Holly C. Miller, Rebecca Rayburn-Reeves, and Thomas R. Zentall<br> [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2696049/pdf/nihms108736.pdf What Do Dogs know about Hidden Objects?] <br><br> Gary Lupyan&nbsp;&amp; Michael J. Spivey<br> [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898810/pdf/pone.0011452.pdf Making the Invisible Visible: Verbal but Not Visual Cues Enhance Visual Detection] Michael Wolf<br> [http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/transparent_city_details/ The Transparent City] <br><br> Geraint Rees<br> [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2602754/pdf/ukmss-3295.pdf The Anatomy of Blindsight]<br><br>
+Holly C. Miller, Rebecca Rayburn-Reeves, and Thomas R. Zentall
+[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2696049/pdf/nihms108736.pdf What Do Dogs know about Hidden Objects?]
+Gary Lupyan and Michael J. Spivey
+[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898810/pdf/pone.0011452.pdf Making the Invisible Visible: Verbal but Not Visual Cues Enhance Visual Detection]
+Michael Wolf
+[http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/transparent_city_details/ The Transparent City]
+Geraint Rees
+[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2602754/pdf/ukmss-3295.pdf The Anatomy of Blindsight]
 ==Microscopic==
-Willard Wigan<br> [http://www.willard-wigan.com/video.aspx Micro Sculptor] <br><br> Z. Wang, W. Guo, L. Li, B.S. Luk'yanchuk, A. Khan, Z. Liu, Z. Chen, M. Hong<br> [http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/academic/profile/publications/index.html?staffId=309 Optical Virtual Imaging at 50 nm Lateral Resolution with a White Light Nanoscope]<br><br>
+Willard Wigan
+[http://www.willard-wigan.com/video.aspx Micro Sculptor]
+Z. Wang, W. Guo, L. Li, B.S. Luk'yanchuk, A. Khan, Z. Liu, Z. Chen, M. Hong
+[http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/academic/profile/publications/index.html?staffId=309 Optical Virtual Imaging at 50 nm Lateral Resolution with a White Light Nanoscope]
 ==What this Living Book Might've Looked Like if I Were a Physicist==

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