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<br>'''Introduction''' <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 fictive 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 and helps him to brutally win a kingdom. Ancient etymology indicates that the name of Hades, Greek god of the underworld, means ‘invisible’ and his helmet enabled him to realise this state (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 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 to, and encourages us to find ways to represent invisibility through existing paradigms, is undoubtedly domesticated. <br><br> The trope of invisibility clearly has creative, political, epistemological and cultural force. But invisibility is not just a cultural trope: it is a physical state from which these other uses borrow meaning. Invisible matter is that which neither reflects nor absorbs light. It is a state that assumes its full resonance in relation to a human viewer: invisibility is nothing more than that which lies outside the visible spectrum (although we will need to consider the role of technology in the enhancement of vision and detection). In this respect, invisibility is not a positive property of the matter observed, but a limitation in, or manipulation of, the observer’s visual apparatus. Such a description works just as well at the metaphorical level - whether we are referring to cultural limitations, as with Ellison’s white folk, or psychological limitations in which the psyche refuses to face certain events or truths - as it does in reference to the physiological limitations of the human eye. [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/The_in/visible/introduction (more)]  
[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/ISBN_Numbers ISBN: 978-1-60785-265-0]


<br>'''Invisible Web'''  
''edited by'' [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/The_in/visible/bio Clare Birchall]
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[[Dirk Lewandowski & Philipp Mayr - Exploring the Academic Invisible Web]]  
==[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/The_in/visible/introduction 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 & 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)]


&nbsp; [http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0702/0702103.pdf Link to original Article] '''[Should the authors' names be part of a live link? And do you need this 'link to original article'?]  
==Invisible 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]  


Jayant Madhavan, Loredana Afanasiev,&nbsp;Lyublena Antova &amp;&nbsp;Alon Halevy&nbsp;
==Black Holes==
; 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]


&nbsp; [http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0909/0909.1785.pdf ‘Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future’]  
==Invisibility Cloak==
; 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 : [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]


Makeuseof
==Dark Matter==
; Mark J. Hadley : [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>


&nbsp;[http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-search-engines-explore-deep-invisible-web/ '10 Search Engines to Explore the Deep Web']
==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]
; Trevor Paglen : [http://www.paglen.com/ Invisible]
; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5aytDSnuxk YF-22 and YF-23 - Stealth Technology] : <youtube>X5aytDSnuxk</youtube>


&nbsp;  
==Seeing and Unseeing==
; 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]


'''Black Holes'''
==Microscopic==
; 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]


Ted Jacobson and Thomas P. Sotiriou
==What this Living Book Might've Looked Like if I Were a Physicist==
; [http://download.iop.org/pw/PW_jul11_sample_issue.pdf 'Invisibility', Physicsworld, Vol.24, No.7, July 2011]


&nbsp; [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1006/1006.1763v1.pdf ‘Might Black Holes Reveal their Inner Secrets?’]  
==[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/The_in/visible/Attributions '''Attributions''']==


Alberto Sesana, Jonathan Gair, Emanuele Berti, Marta Volonteri
== A 'Frozen' PDF Version of this Living Book ==
 
; [http://livingbooksaboutlife.org/pdfs/bookarchive/invisible.pdf Download a 'frozen' PDF version of this book as it appeared on 7th October 2011]
&nbsp; [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1011/1011.5893v1.pdf ‘Reconstructing the Massive Black Hole Cosmic History through Gravitational Waves’]
 
J.Hillis Miller
 
&nbsp; [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]
 
&nbsp;
 
'''Invisibility Cloak'''
 
Xianzhong Chen, Yu Luo, Jingjing Zhang, Kyle Jiang, John B. Pendry and Shuang Zhang
 
&nbsp; [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
 
&nbsp; [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
 
&nbsp; [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
 
&nbsp; [http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0801/0801.2223.pdf ‘Cloaking of Matter Waves’]<br>
 
Moti Fridman, Alessandro Farsi, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Alexander L.Gaeta
 
&nbsp;[http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.2062v1.pdf 'Demonstration of Temporal Cloaking']
 
<br>
 
'''Dark Matter'''
 
Mark J. Hadley
 
&nbsp; [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0701/0701100v1.pdf 'Classical Dark Matter']
 
Vincenzo Vitale, Aldo Morselli
 
&nbsp; [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
 
&nbsp; [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0308/0308054v1.pdf ‘On the Interpretation of the Local Dark Matter’]
 
M. Rondcadelli
 
&nbsp; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCgTJ6ID6ZA ‘Searching For&nbsp;Dark Matter’]
 
Andreus Albrecht et al
 
&nbsp; [http://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/DETF_Report.pdf Report of the Dark Energy Task Force]
 
Cosmos Video News Release&nbsp;
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCgTJ6ID6ZA 'Dark Matter 3D Map' Open in YouTube]
 
<youtube>gCgTJ6ID6ZA</youtube>
 
<br>'''Stealth'''
 
F.P. Neele, M. Wilson, &amp; K. Youern
 
&nbsp; [http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz//handle/10289/3303 '"Stealth" Technology: Proposed New Method of Interpretation of Infrared Ship Signature Requirements']
 
David Hambling
 
&nbsp; [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2001/jun/07/physicalsciences.highereducation/print Vanishing Point]
 
Gene Poteat
 
&nbsp; [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st08.pdf 'Stealth, Countermeasures and ELINT 1960-1975']
 
Trevor Paglen
 
&nbsp; [http://www.paglen.com/ Invisible]
 
&nbsp;Youtube
 
&nbsp; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5aytDSnuxk 'YF-22 and YF-23 - Stealth Technology']
 
<youtube>X5aytDSnuxk</youtube>
 
<br>
 
'''Seeing and Unseeing'''
 
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&nbsp;&amp; 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’]
 
<br>
 
'''Microscopic'''
 
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']
 
<br>
 
'''What this Living Book might have looked like if I were a physicist'''
 
[http://download.iop.org/pw/PW_jul11_sample_issue.pdf 'Invisibility', Physicsworld, Vol.24, No.7, July 2011] <br><br> [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/The_in/visible/Attributions Attributions]

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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

Attributions

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