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| Title: | Amazing World of Science Fiction |
| Authors: | Mishra, Arvind |
| Issue Date: | Mar-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | GRIFFIN, a scientist,
believed that if a person’s refractive index was changed to exactly that of air
and his body did not absorb or reflect light, then he would be invisible.
Griffin successfully carried out this procedure on himself and became
invisible. Unfortunately, he could not make himself visible again, and became
mentally unstable as a result. Well, Griffin is not a real-life character, as
you would have guessed by now. He is the hero of a famous science fiction novel
published in 1897—The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells. |
| Page(s): | 8-13 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0036-8512 |
| Source: | SR Vol.48(03) [March 2011]
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