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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.&nbsp; [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/The_in/visible/introduction (more)]  
<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.&nbsp; [http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/The_in/visible/introduction (more)]  
 
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<br>'''Invisible Web'''  
<br>'''Invisible Web'''  
 
<br><br>
Dirk Lewandowski &amp; Philipp Mayr  
Dirk Lewandowski &amp; Philipp Mayr<br>
 
[http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0702/0702103.pdf Exploring the Academic Invisible Web]  
[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&nbsp;
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]  
[http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0909/0909.1785.pdf Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future]  
 
<br><br>
Makeuseof  
Makeuseof<br>
 
[http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-search-engines-explore-deep-invisible-web/ 10 Search Engines to Explore the Deep Web]  
[http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-search-engines-explore-deep-invisible-web/ 10 Search Engines to Explore the Deep Web]  
 
<br><br>
&nbsp;
 
'''Black Holes'''  
'''Black Holes'''  
 
<br><br>
Ted Jacobson and Thomas P. Sotiriou  
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?]  
[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  
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]  
[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  
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]  
[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>
&nbsp;
 
'''Invisibility Cloak'''  
'''Invisibility Cloak'''  
 
<br><br>
Xianzhong Chen, Yu Luo, Jingjing Zhang, Kyle Jiang, John B. Pendry and Shuang Zhang  
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]  
[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  
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]  
[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  
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]  
[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  
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>  
[http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0801/0801.2223.pdf Cloaking of Matter Waves]<br>  
 
<br><br>
Moti Fridman, Alessandro Farsi, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Alexander L.Gaeta  
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]  
[http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.2062v1.pdf Demonstration of Temporal Cloaking]  
 
<br><br>
<br>  
 
'''Dark Matter'''  
'''Dark Matter'''  
 
<br><br>
Mark J. Hadley  
Mark J. Hadley<br>
 
[http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0701/0701100v1.pdf Classical Dark Matter]  
[http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0701/0701100v1.pdf Classical Dark Matter]  
 
<br><br>
Vincenzo Vitale, Aldo Morselli  
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]  
[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  
H. L. Helfer<br>
 
[http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0308/0308054v1.pdf On the Interpretation of the Local Dark Matter]  
[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  
Andreus Albrecht et al.<br>
 
[http://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/DETF_Report.pdf Report of the Dark Energy Task Force]  
[http://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/DETF_Report.pdf Report of the Dark Energy Task Force]  
 
<br><br>
Cosmos Video News Release&nbsp;
Cosmos Video News Release<br>
 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCgTJ6ID6ZA 'Dark Matter 3D Map' Open in YouTube]  
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCgTJ6ID6ZA 'Dark Matter 3D Map' Open in YouTube]  
 
<br><br>
<youtube>gCgTJ6ID6ZA</youtube>  
<youtube>gCgTJ6ID6ZA</youtube>  
 
<br><br>
<br>'''Stealth'''  
'''Stealth'''  
 
<br><br>
F.P. Neele, M. Wilson, &amp; K. Youern  
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]  
[http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz//handle/10289/3303 'Stealth' Technology: Proposed New Method of Interpretation of Infrared Ship Signature Requirements]  
 
<br><br>
David Hambling  
David Hambling<br>
 
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2001/jun/07/physicalsciences.highereducation/print Vanishing Point]  
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2001/jun/07/physicalsciences.highereducation/print Vanishing Point]  
 
<br><br>
Gene Poteat  
Gene Poteat<br>
 
[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st08.pdf Stealth, Countermeasures and ELINT 1960-1975]  
[http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB54/st08.pdf Stealth, Countermeasures and ELINT 1960-1975]  
 
<br><br>
Trevor Paglen  
Trevor Paglen<br>
 
[http://www.paglen.com/ Invisible]
[http://www.paglen.com/ Invisible]  
<br><br>
 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5aytDSnuxk YF-22 and YF-23 - Stealth Technology]  
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5aytDSnuxk YF-22 and YF-23 - Stealth Technology]  
 
<br><br>
<youtube>X5aytDSnuxk</youtube>  
<youtube>X5aytDSnuxk</youtube>  
 
<br><br>
<br>  
 
'''Seeing and Unseeing'''  
'''Seeing and Unseeing'''  
 
<br><br>
Holly C. Miller, Rebecca Rayburn-Reeves, and Thomas R. Zentall  
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?]  
[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  
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]  
[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>
Michael Wolf  
 
[http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/transparent_city_details/ The Transparent City]  
[http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/transparent_city_details/ The Transparent City]  
 
<br><br>
Geraint Rees  
Geraint Rees<br>
 
[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2602754/pdf/ukmss-3295.pdf The Anatomy of Blindsight]  
[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2602754/pdf/ukmss-3295.pdf The Anatomy of Blindsight]  
 
<br><br>
<br>  
 
'''Microscopic'''  
'''Microscopic'''  
 
<br><br>
Willard Wigan  
Willard Wigan<br>
 
[http://www.willard-wigan.com/video.aspx Micro Sculptor]  
[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  
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]  
[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>
<br>  
 
'''What this Living Book Might've Looked Like if I Were a Physicist'''  
'''What this Living Book Might've Looked Like if I Were a Physicist'''  
 
<br><br>
[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]
[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 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 & 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 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.  (more)


Invisible Web

Dirk Lewandowski & Philipp Mayr
Exploring the Academic Invisible Web

Jayant Madhavan, Loredana Afanasiev, Lyublena Antova & 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, & 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 & 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