Invisible Photology (INVISIBILITY CLOAKS) with Dr. Greg Gbur
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.
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Visit Dr. Gregory 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
A donation went to Doctors Without Borders
Links to things we discussed:
Free Space Optical Communication
Extremely Low Frequency Plasmons in Metallic Mesostructures
Anapole moment of Majorana fermions and implications for direct detection of neutralino dark matter
New, simple theory may explain mysterious dark matter
Dr. Flip Tanedo Fermions Twitter thread
Metamaterials: Going beyond nature
Some older films about invisibility
The Invisible Man’s Revenge - 1944 film
Milan’s hyperface Halloween costume
Greg’s blog post, Musings on the “TikTok Mirror Mystery”
Joker Visits Two-Face In The Hospital Scene - THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) Movie Clip
Face Recognition During Coronavirus: Do Masks Block Facial Recognition?
Frank Thone’s 1944 article, “Cloaks of Invisibility’
What’s the difference between “transparency” and “invisibility”?
Scotch Tapes: Magic vs. Transparent?
Emil Wolf, pioneer of optical physics, dies at 95
Extremely Low Frequency Plasmons in Metallic Mesostructures
Young's Double Slit Experiment - A Level Physics
Algis Budrys’s 1962 story “For Love”
Thomas Young’s double slit experiment
Glassfrogs conceal blood in their liver to maintain transparency
Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events
A Tourist Fell Into This Ultra-Black Artwork That Looks Like a Cartoon Hole
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Molecular Neurobiology (BRAIN CHEMICALS)
Quantum Ontology (WHAT IS REAL?)
Cosmology (THE UNIVERSE) Parts 1 & 2
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