Is Invisibility Possible? | James May's Q&A (Ep 1) | Head Squeeze

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James May answers the question as to whether or not invisibility is possible. James draws upon quite a few interesting theories during this discussion.
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With his own unique spin, James May asks and answers the oddball questions that we've all wondered about from 'What exactly is one second?' to 'Is invisibility possible?'
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@OMGLOL381 8 лет назад

the Belgium sense of humour XD lmao im dead

@raxsavvage 8 лет назад

hes english

@OMGLOL381 8 лет назад

***** If you're referring to James may then yes i know he's english. he co-hosted top gear with jeremy clarkson and richard hammond

@raxsavvage 8 лет назад

top gear went to shit imm ediately after they left. grand tour where it at now.

@afrog2666 7 лет назад

Looking forwards to the nxt season :)

@ChadDidNothingWrong 7 лет назад

Mr.EDM LOL

@nathansora1 9 лет назад

That man has glorious hair

@afrog2666 7 лет назад

Maybe in THAT light lol..

@harrybarodawala3588 8 лет назад

2.36 he should've mentioned the top gear episode of hammond driving that invisible car to celebrate 50 years of Bond.

@DevilboyScooby 9 лет назад

Don't expect to see invisibility any time soon, or ever, as if it's invisible, you won't see it...

@Sr65536 8 лет назад

+DevilboyScooby Yes, that's the joke.

@georgecarlson2121 8 лет назад

Being visible to others has many benifits. Imagine you are invisible. Others have no way to avoid you. Think of all the times others make room for. People make better doors than windows.

@edwardgriffin8092 6 лет назад

I can make myself invisible, but it only works if nobody is looking :-)

@Asimov16 5 лет назад

You must be a weeping angel then LOL

@xavierh.5102 8 лет назад

3:20 I SEE WHAT YA DID THERE!!!!!

@TGFan101 8 лет назад

I see what you did there

@xavierh.5102 8 лет назад

Mohammed Jawid i see what you did there

@hasoonnine 8 лет назад

i understood what you did there, haha i beat you.

@samakshuppal 8 лет назад

James May rocks at explaining things!

@meesguyy 7 лет назад

A TV showing the camera angle of something behind it, eh? Sounds like that top gear episode when Hammond went around in a ford van covered in TVs and cameras

@PrivatePaul 8 лет назад

excellent sound design on the animations. very fitting and subtle effects

@MrJamesonStyles 8 лет назад

The Belgian sense of humor is only invisible in the figurative sense. Sincerely, a Belgian.

@MrJamesonStyles 8 лет назад

Only one. Stop being illogical and facetious. It is unproductive.

@signorpippistrello 5 лет назад

I guess he just didn’t want to hit on the German sense of humor again! So take the neighbor with the same flag colors....!

@markhorton8578 8 лет назад

Even as a small kid I thought the invisible man story was crap. Not only will you not see invisibilty, but if you are invisible you won't be able to see. If your eyes have a refractive index of zero you will only have a general sense of light and dark. :-)

@Geraffel 8 лет назад

sure, i knew that when i was 2, like, duh?!

@markhorton8578 8 лет назад

Stefan Lightle by 8 surely?

@BURNOUTRS 8 лет назад

so then we make everything but your eyes invisible, and you're a floating pair of eyeballs. thats a really good point though, your eyes rely on being able to focus the incoming light by bending it, therefore if your eyes let all light pass through them then bam, no more sight. I always thought nano technology would be the answer. an array of cameras the same size as the little bits of crystal on and LCD panel for example. now if we used something similar to oled technology with the flexible screens and make a material with an equal and even distribution of these tiny cameras and tiny light emitting units then perhaps a screen could be made thats capable of simultaneously displaying an image and recording it. Make this material into a body suit then you just have to program some kind of onboard system that lines up the feed from the cameras to the corresponding point on the screen on the opposite part of your body. and find a way to power it. the R & D required for such a project would be staggering i imagine. developing a system that controlled the display perfectly so it adjusted the picture to make it appear as though you were looking at an empty space and not the wall behind someone being displayed on their body would take quite a long time.

@markhorton8578 8 лет назад

***** True, typo, well spotted. I shall not correct it now you have commented. :-)

@Unown_B 7 лет назад

WOT?

@toniquix 8 лет назад

This man is a god

@Semtexxify 9 лет назад

What he said, to be "invisible" in broad daylight speaking wise, light has to completely pass through you, its importend to note, PASS TROUGH and not "ignore" you. They are completely diffrent meanings. The things exsisting today aren't "invisibility" suits, it's tehnical term is "cloak(ing)" suits, example from a distance you could be very hard to spot, but if one would pay extreme attention, the one would ask him/herself are they seeing something or is thier mind playing tricks on them. Also, as old as the game Crysis is and as very long ago it has been when I played the original game, you were not *invisible* you were *cloaked* The voice literally said *cloak engaged* Now, Im not a nazi or a picky pecker when it comes to things, however please, do take this as a lesson to learn to respect on the things you say, so you don't embarrass yourself infront of others.

@beachcomber2008 8 лет назад

+Semtexxify "Pass TROUGH". Fail, piggie.

@SirWokenDemon 10 лет назад

The Belgian sense of humor is in a lot of ways similar to the British sense of humor which is why I, being a Belgian, find it funny if you guys mock Belgium or the Belgian people/culture =P Having said that: thank you James May for making science so damn interessting! That's something that no teacher of mine could ever accomplish =D

@EzraDair 6 лет назад

Hans R. Shush

@Asimov16 5 лет назад

British sense of humour is different to the Belgium sense of humor as it has an extra U in it LOL

@eurodraco 11 лет назад

I'm surprised there was no mention of the blindness that might theoretically occur from invisibility. If all the light is bending around you, then your eyes would theoretically be unable to 'absorb' some of the light waves, leading to blindness. So while no one would be able to see YOU while you're invisible, you wouldn't be able to see much either.

@faudanke4459 8 лет назад

HAH I GET IT

@FoxvoxDK 11 лет назад

Wouldn't you go blind if light just passed through you?

@chrispowell1812 11 лет назад

I love that light refraction animation for some reason

@bkc7228 5 лет назад

Based on the way our eyes work if you were invisible you would also be blind

@SunshineStateCoasters Год назад

John Cena has been doing it for over 20 years now!

@afrog2666 7 лет назад

AIR is invisible to humans .. :p

@WhatsACreel 7 лет назад

I saw a thing once where someone pointed out that the eyes only work because of reflection off the retina, and if you're invisible, you'd also be blind. Might have been a vsauce vid?

@jasonarmstrong5750 8 лет назад

here's still hoping I can one day get a hold of a Stealth Camouflage system, straight out of Metal Gear Solid

@vancityguy 5 лет назад

Or Predator. 😉

@Icanfigureitoutintime 8 лет назад

we need more of these, please!

@weRbananas 10 лет назад

I like how this channel explains stuff and stays on topic unlike some other channels

@Natsukashii-Records 11 лет назад

Yes, invisibility does literally mean something that cannot be seen, and if you get too technical you can say that something behind you is invisible to you. But usually we use invisible for things that cannot be seen by direct observation. The proper word for something behind you is 'hidden'. Also dark matter is not a hypothesis... if you don't take it into account galaxies should be flying apart, which is not what happens when we look up.

@ScotsmanRS 11 лет назад

"This isn't a theory I can provide evidence but like all great minds know, some information is best kept hidden." Surely a mind so great should recognise that scientific theories are supported by evidence. (If you provided some, we might be able to promote your hypothesis to a theory. I shan't be holding my breath, but I'm sure you'll see that for yourself, given the alleged visibility of air.)

@justandy333 11 лет назад

I saw quite a cool trick. Some bloke set up a projector and put some random background image on it. He then made a suit (looked more like a rain coat) that was made of projector screen material. As he moved around in front of it the illusion of invisibility was surprisingly effective. Wasn't perfect but still pretty good.

@TheMrwilliams94 11 лет назад

James, Are hover cars possible?,is there a source of energy out there that can power them? I ask this because,am aware that there is about 100 years or less of oil in the world, when it dose run out,will the world see hover cars then.

@kingemocut 11 лет назад

if we had a blanket that was made out of thousands of tiny mirrors, so many that the light would be bent around the blanket, and that the blanket was highly flexable, couldn't it refract light around the said blanket..?

@DoctorFragnito 11 лет назад

Apparently the U.S military is working on a cylinder like object that will bend light around to the other side much like 2:50 So far, it's only been successful in microscopic scale with non-visible light.

@owengray5778 10 лет назад

well, hardy-har har. the last comment was so punny

@kingemocut 11 лет назад

i was thinking of having the mirrors face in on itself so it refracts the light back to the eyes, and happening along each and every fiber optic cable, but i see what you mean.

@xander7ful 8 лет назад

Yes it is. Google HSII, human spontaneous involuntary invisibility & Donna Good Higbee. You will find her page on it which gives real cases & the history.

@kingemocut 11 лет назад

what about a subtle mix of both optic fiber and mirror? the mirror would be semi-transparent, letting the light gain where the optic fiber lost it?

@DannyShaubolo 11 лет назад

Yes you can be invisible, no you cannot be completely invisible because if you did your irises would be invisible and that would make you go blind!

@blackblaud 11 лет назад

the belgian sense of humor is invisible hahahahahahaah :D

@MicrosoftsourceCode 11 лет назад

funny he forgot to mention camouflage and the chameleon. Being very still all so helps one be less visible.

@xander7ful 11 лет назад

No. It's like those one-way mirrors you see on TV cop shows. You can see through your side, but other people can't see you through theirs.

@marcoantoniomaierhofferdec7766 11 лет назад

fantastico,maravilhoso vou espalhar para todos aqui na parte de baixo do mundo sobre o descobrimento da invisibilidade,muito obrigado ao pessoal da bbc desculpe tem que ser em letra maiuscula BBC.

@RFC3514 11 лет назад

How can a mirror make you gain light? If that worked, we'd be using mirrors instead of lightbulbs and saving a lot on electricity bills. ;-) If you want to keep the original brightness, you need a powered light source (ex., LED screens on one side, and a camera on the other). People have already built this, but, again, it only works from a very specific angle (and, even from that angle, doesn't work against radar, heat vision, etc.).

@RFC3514 11 лет назад

Mirrors don't refract light, they reflect it. A blanked covered in thousands of tiny mirrors would basically be like a sheet of shiny aluminium foil, you'd see yourself (or a deformed version of yourself) reflected back when you looked at it. Using optic fibre you could theoretically carry light around an object, but the effect would only work from a specific angle, and would cause some loss of brightness, so it would be pretty easy to spot.

@RFC3514 11 лет назад

The word "hidden" means something that is concealed (i.e., deliberately placed beyond something else, so that the other item blocks your line of sight to it). If something is behind you there doesn't have to be anything between it and you; you can't see it simply because it's not within your cone of vision, not because there's something blocking the view. P.S.: "Dark matter is a type of matter hypothesized in astronomy" [...] "theorists still don't know what the correct explanation is" (NASA)

@ProteanSelf7 11 лет назад

for a practical reason to make a specific area invisible (2:26) check out the video - "iPad2 Halloween Costume- Gaping hole in torso" on utube ...its a neat trick..thanks physics! and btw particle physicists have bent light around objects already...miniscule, tiny objects the size of atoms (carbon I believe) so they are making progress...but it's waaaaaayyyyy off til we get Solid Snake's cloaking device

@noname2useable 11 лет назад

no it means incapable of being seen. there is a world of difference. being invisible(quality) and not visible(state) is not the same. something deemed to be invisible to the naked eye for example, cannot be seen without aid of devices. it would be ridiculous if we used ur definition since everything in the universe can be categorised as ''invisible to the naked eye... when u close them''. there wouldnt even be any point in categorising anything as invisible or visible then.

@monkerud2108 11 лет назад

James may, air is not invisible. nothing is invisible :P wouldn't even the most empty space in the universe will be changing the light ever so slightly due to extremely weak gravitational fields? this is ofc an absurdly small effect :P btw don't actually reply if you haven't conducted a study that found this to be false for any part of the universe :P, and Santa exist also same goes for replying to that.

@McDuffington 11 лет назад

Invisibility has been accomplished, scientifically speaking; Search the web for "2012-01-scientists-free-standing-d-cloak" January 2012 Search for "nature07247" September 2008 Search for "invisibility-cloak-0125" January 2011 So invisibility is not only a possibilty. We've actually already made things invisible. Ps. Thanks youtube for not allowing me to post URL's to scientific papers!

@DuoElite 11 лет назад

The air is actually clear, but the reason why it's blue to us is the light bouncing of the particles in the air. I'll explain further; The light spectrum ( The rainbow. ) has many all the colours that can be seen from the naked eye. Red is the longest and blue being the shortest, every colour in the air gets bounced by the particles but blue the most because of it being the least strong, the shortest. This makes the sky blue to the eye anyway. Also 'air' is a word for the gases surrounding us.

@alanreid2919 11 лет назад

I am very much in touch with my own beliefs, thoughts etc and i am more than independent on my views. However, i look at all evidence on a subject and make my own conclusions on any given subject. Especially in the past year or so i have found myself compelled to educating myself on subjects such as conspiracy's and a bit further from what we are told is normal. i don't expect people to take one word for anything, i ask those in doubt of anything to look at both sides of everything in life :)

@TheDarkDrumz 11 лет назад

if you think that there are actually hours to count. have you ever heard of the world being flat, then round, then the world isn't alone, there are other world, etc etc...there is a reason was to why science isn't exact. because you're being told what 'they' who ever 'they' are want you to know. example, your gf, friends, parents, authorities etc. Ever heard of the electric universe..google or youtube thunderbolt project. Learn something new.

@StumbriniuRecords 11 лет назад

it is physically possible to be invisible the only problem is you wont be able to see anything too, there is only one way, unless you make your eyes visible, in that way you can see too, but then you not completely invisible - obviously these are only theory's of modern science, but within time, who knows ;)

@DMTInfinity 8 лет назад

I glad I gave you a chance. Great video!!!

@Spheredalai 2 года назад

Richard Hammond's van can be invisible. yes, invisibility is possible.

@RFC3514 11 лет назад

It it exists, it can be detected. Until then, it's just an hypothesis, a practical tool for some calculations (kind of like the square root of -1). If dark matter wasn't supposed to be detectable, there wouldn't be so many ongoing experiments to try to detect it.

@noname2useable 11 лет назад

No the object is still visible, you are simply not looking at it. to be precise being invisible is a state in which an object is incapable of being seen/detected. in the case of turning around the object can be detected but u are simply not in a position to do so.

@alanreid2919 11 лет назад

Already exists, footage on here somewhere of a US soldier getting into a tank. The footage is slowed down, heat signature etc and is quite something. Bear in mind folks, if the government has not yet declared such things...how can James? Still, like the Q&A :)

@user-ht8pn6dv9j 6 лет назад

Firstly- 1:27 How much did I understand correctly? "The human body *will* actually allow us certain amount of light through - which is why it's amusing to put a powerful torch next to your cheek, and illuminate your mouth in a scary way." Secondly- why did they draw the professor's head to look like a doughnut? I find it rather amusing with the scream. And lastly, I think Jeremy would actually plan to try invisibility to childishly troll James. Get the picture? "CLARKSON - you insufferable oaf!!!" - a foreigner

@thewaywework 11 лет назад

Air is the name given to the atmosphere used in breathing and photosynthesis. Dry air contains roughly (by volume) 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.039% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases. From Wikipedia

@thewaywework 11 лет назад

There are many things in the atmosphere, but basically it is made up of two different elements which are gases. Measured by volume (not weight) completely dry AIR contains approximately 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen with about 1% of everything else.

@RFC3514 11 лет назад

Invisible literally means "cannot be seen". If it's behind you and you don't have a mirror, it's invisible (to you). Otherwise there's no such thing as invisibility, because everything that exists "can be detected" in some way.

@trevan123456 11 лет назад

Even if someone were to be invisible, a expected side effect would to be blind to because that's how the eyes work, absorbing light.. To bend light around someone or make them transparent would make them also blind.

@misinformed222 11 лет назад

If you were invisible, wouldn't that make you blind? The basic principles of eyesight require the use of a len that would no longer function. Additionally, every point that would receive the image would be useless.

@MusicTrying 11 лет назад

I guess there's a problem: We can only see if the light reaches our eyes. If we're all covered by something that deflect the light, it's not going to reach our eyes. Then, if we're invisible, we can''t see to. Isn't it?

@JeTZzOfficial 11 лет назад

A few months ago this was released by a company called hyper stealth, its call Quantum Stealth, it bends light around the material making the person seem invisible check it out, search "Quantum stealth"

@simon_nickle 11 лет назад

Something weird happened. I looked at the thumbnail for the "What is an itch?" video and it showed a picture of James scratching his ear. Then I felt a small itch in my same ear. strange...

@crisrose9707 11 лет назад

although if you are invisible you would not be able to see if you had a 'bionic eye'(this has been invented) you would be able to see in the sense of having pictures projected mentaly into the brain.

@JDTheBiscuit 11 лет назад

Even though invisibility is possible in some way, don't expect to see it soon. =P Lol obviously not...

@GTI1dasOriginal 11 лет назад

What is probably fake? them creating it a few months back, the invisibility cloak, the claim or Canada?

@OlCapitain 11 лет назад

Duke University is turning things invisible to Microwaves right now, it isn't a huge step to move to the visible light range...well kinda large one, but not a massive one.

@keightley2011 11 лет назад

This is just a "theory" but if you was to be invisible due to light being steered around you wouldn't you see nothing but darkness? due to the light not entering your eyes?

@evilovesperry 11 лет назад

bah I was hoping to find a group of semi serious science minded individuals >_> I had an idea I wanted to test but everyone here is here for "super powers and fun"

@TacComControl 11 лет назад

Possible? Yes. Practical? Not so much. The nanotube invisibility system has a small problem, in that yes, you're invisible in it, but you're also 100% blind.

@ximecreature 8 лет назад

i didn't know you thought we belgian people don't have humour; quite at the contrary we like to make jokes and stuff (une fois). Maybe not everyone laugh, tough. Good channel, good video, thanks ! :)

@Guardian016 11 лет назад

I used to be naturally invisible. Even when I was standing or speaking, nobody noticed me. Then I realised invisibility wasn't really a good thing.

@greenzoid2 11 лет назад

once we get better with nanotechnology I'm sure we will make invisibility suits or cloaks. Of course, after its exclusive to the military for 10-20 years.

@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee916 11 лет назад

The military uses refraction panels on tanks though... And they are developing a special type of cloth that will interlace light through carbon strands.

@SupachargedGaming 5 лет назад

Camera behind, screen in front. Boom, invisible jets. Thanks murica.

@JbtSveZauzeto1 6 лет назад

Ahh, yes. Carbon nanotubes. The magical substance that will allow us to do everything from making space elevators to having incredibly energy-dense batteries and be invisible.

@warlac54 11 лет назад

That was very good, I hope to be invisible some day. But I dont think james will ever be invisible with thoose shirts.I love tour shirts though.

@XJakzamX 11 лет назад

I see what you did there. Facepalm at the amount of people who don't get it. Seems like there are countries with even worse sense of humor..

@FistoTheSexboticus 11 лет назад

Invisibility is possible? Pfft, yeah right. I'll believe it when I see it with my own eyes.

@Ipherix 11 лет назад

When he started talking about H.G. Wells I started thinking about Warehouse 13 so I was REALLY confused for a minute when he said "he." xD

@brianblankenship1869 4 года назад

That's the problem. If it could be possible, Invisibility would be used for perversion, not stealth like it should.

@ethanmiller335 11 лет назад

By using this dumb fact, I was able to make small talk and eventualy ask out the girl I liked. She said no. Thanks anyway mate! :-)

@MidasIsGolden 11 лет назад

At the same time, couldn't light pass through some sort of 'field' and into then, your retina? I have no idea how that would work

@dejffjed 11 лет назад

Sadly for you, I'm from the Czech republic and I get it. Did you notice that peeing kid? It must be Brussels "Manneken Pis". ;-)

@johnnyhempseed84 11 лет назад

"...invisibility is technically possible..but don't expect to see it any time soon." Haha, nice play on the words at the end.

@solas246 11 лет назад

In an x-ray, you are shooting electrons through your body, making an image out of the ones that have easily passed through!!

@signorpippistrello 5 лет назад

James May must have seen the ad for the 2019 Samsung TVs back in 2013!

@michael_twss 11 лет назад

how do birds deal with the refraction in water when they are looking for fishes? Could you please answer this question?

@mariosadiku6816 9 лет назад

Will we ever be able to travel beyond our solar system? Besides using a hypothetical wormhole or Einstein-Rosen Bridge.

@N16D12C 10 лет назад

@Bruno Ulens, just don't do that, it's a dumb reaction that reaffirms the dumb stereotype.

@thewaywework 11 лет назад

I am sorry I think there is some misunderstanding, I did not mean to offend you and apologise if I did in any way.

@Techischannel 6 лет назад

Urgh! I Hate Invisibility Puns, i don't see why people think they're funny.

@Detank2002 9 лет назад

invisibility could be a thing we just don't know that we've done it because its invisible...

@mel_arky 5 лет назад

This joke has probably been said already but thats a funny looking Tom Scott xD nice red shirt!

@JrsyAero 11 лет назад

Then the same could be said that Santa does not exist. To prove he does you must give your research and evidence.

@coloripple 11 лет назад

When you pass the event horizon of a black hole you get invisible for others too

@MrFilosoffen 8 лет назад

If you are invisible, your eye won't work. It needs to bend light to make a projection and the projection will be absorbed for us to perceive the image.