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What makes glass or water transparent (what is the scientific explanation for this)? Do you think it would be scientifically possible for a man to become invisible, or transparent? (Keep in mind that writers of science fiction have often turned out to be prophetic in their imagination!)

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The inability of water or glass to refract or reflect photons visible to the human eye makes it transparent. This is because rays visible to the human eyes are easily passed by water and glass, thereby making it transparent. Parts of the human body such as your palm or tip of your fingers might allow...
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The inability of water or glass to refract or reflect photons visible to the human eye makes it transparent. This is because rays visible to the human eyes are easily passed by water and glass, thereby making it transparent. Parts of the human body such as your palm or tip of your fingers might allow a certain amount of light to penetrate but not all thereby making it translucent rather than transparent. And even if it can be imagined, unlike water or glass, the human body is not uniformly distributed. Instead, it is very complex. This non-uniform distribution separates every part of the body differently and allows them to act differently, too. Hence, unlike the palm, legs cannot be penetrated by the visible light because if massive amount of mass present. However, if the luminous intensity is extremely high like that of the sun (provided the light doesn't burn), then in that case it might penetrate the human body to make it look transparent or invisible rather than translucent but that would depend on the source of light and the source has to be a 1000 times intense than the sources that we are used to. 

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Class and water are not 100% transparent. Only air is 100% because no light is reflected in air. If the human body completely allows to pass though or absorbed light falls on it, then it is invisible.
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In simple terms, you see an object only when it reflects light, and that falls on your eyes. Here the glass molecules can absorb some part of the light and pass most of the light through them. It makes the glass transparent. The same is the case with water molecules.If the human body could somehow pass...
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In simple terms, you see an object only when it reflects light, and that falls on your eyes. Here the glass molecules can absorb some part of the light and pass most of the light through them. It makes the glass transparent. The same is the case with water molecules.
If the human body could somehow pass all the light, it would become invisible (Practically impossible). But having said that, we have the latest inventions of metamaterials that could pass light spectra without reflecting it.

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Water or glass molecules allow light or photons to pass through them which makes the glass or water transparent. Transparency of glass is 90% in window glass and 99% in optical glass. Transparency of water depends on depth and particles in water.
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Water and glass both have reflection is far less than one for visible light. So it passed torch through it and reflected for visible light, that's why it becomes transparent than translucent. Even the human body also invisible to radio rays than visible light rays. Finally, it is not possible to make...
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Water and glass both have reflection is far less than one for visible light. So it passed torch through it and reflected for visible light, that's why it becomes transparent than translucent. Even the human body also invisible to radio rays than visible light rays. Finally, it is not possible to make the human body with today's technology, but there is not is impossible. I say it not philosophy; it's a fact proven by modern science explorations. We know about human 3-4% of biological recreation knowledge. My thanks for ask scientific philosophy question of origin for life explorer.
 

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Glass atoms don't absorb most of the light and majority of the photon pass through them. Hence, the glass is transparent. Water is entirely composed of hydrogen and oxygen. Both elements are gases in nature and are invisible, making water also invisible.
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All transparent objects allow light to pass through them, without any hindrance. Take a bowl of clear water; it's open. If you mix Ink to it, it loses the property of transparency. Similarly, our body has the feature of allowing light to pass through, but we have substances like Ink mixed to it. If it...
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All transparent objects allow light to pass through them, without any hindrance. Take a bowl of clear water; it's open. If you mix Ink to it, it loses the property of transparency. Similarly, our body has the feature of allowing light to pass through, but we have substances like Ink mixed to it. If it is possible to separate Ink from clear water, we might also find a way to do the same with the human body.

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Glass atoms don't absorb most of the light and majority of the photon pass through them. Hence, the glass is transparent. Water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen. Both these elements are gases in nature and are invisible, making water also invisible.
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Transparency depends on the molecular structure of atoms decided the slide; then ice and snow would also have been transparent. Yes, it is possible. The person should have some energy field or cover around him so that light bends around him and merges to the same path as it should have if the person...
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Transparency depends on the molecular structure of atoms decided the slide; then ice and snow would also have been transparent. Yes, it is possible. The person should have some energy field or cover around him so that light bends around him and merges to the same path as it should have if the person were not there. Through the body not possible. Cause if we had even successfully penetrated organs and skin what about the bones. Even x rays cant neglect them.

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