To be invisible is to be free. Do as you please and easily avoid punishment. Most modern people think so. However, in real life, a magical advantage can turn out to be a terrible curse both for the one who dares to take advantage of it, and for humanity as a whole.
The invisibility cap, magic cloaks, rings and shoes that make their wearer invisible are found in the legends and myths of the ancient world, legends and sagas of the Middle Ages and in modern fantasy. And everywhere the cherished property looks ambiguous.
For example, Perseus defeated the Gorgon Medusa with winged sandals and a miraculous helmet that makes its owner invisible. Meanwhile, the little thing actually belonged to the god of the underworld, Hades, who, under her cover, approached people and took them to the kingdom of the dead.
In Britain, a legend was told about the young Casvaldon, who killed the leaders of hostile tribes under the cover of a magic cloth that hid him. The invisible hat more than once helped out Ivanov-fools and princes, but first it had to be earned for good deeds or stolen from some evil spirits. To take possession of such a hat, the dwarf Chernomor killed his brother-hero, and began to do black deeds with impunity, to which the kidnapping of the beautiful Lyudmila belongs.
By the way, the invisible hat from Slavic fairy tales had an interesting feature: as long as it is worn correctly, it looks like an ordinary headdress. But as soon as you turn it backwards, the spell took effect and the hero became invisible. In a word, our distant ancestors were well aware that invisibility is an unnatural, wrong state, fraught with great danger due to the ability to serve not only as protection, but also as a weapon, regardless of the goals set.
WHAT IF…
However, the phenomenon of invisibility was the first to be seriously considered by Herbert Wales in a novel that has become a cult. The protagonist Griffin, a chemist who made an epoch-making discovery, convincingly demonstrated to the whole world the futility of the idea itself. Clothing, food, money and the opportunity to earn it, as well as communication with people - the simplest things were not available to him.
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Having placed himself outside the law and morality, he turned into a criminal, a villain against whom the entire surrounding world rebelled: both people and nature itself. He desperately sought a way out of the captivity of "permissiveness", but remained invisible until the moment of his terrible death: "among the ignorant, excited crowd, beaten and wounded, betrayed and mercilessly hunted, ended his strange and terrible life path Griffin - the first of the people who managed to become invisible. " And this is the logical end.
What, if you think about it, does a person want to hide from prying eyes? Obviously, not talent, not virtuous deeds - only respect and honor are due for them, which is only pleasant to anyone. To go beyond the boundaries of what is permissible for the invisible means to rule, take away, intimidate, and commit violence. Modern sponsors of the search for the secret of invisibility are also guided by predatory motives, a thirst for absolute power. Moreover, the idea is not new.
FROM WORD TO BUSINESS
The desire to use the invisibility factor to ensure the success of various military operations appeared long before the era of high technology. Warriors all over the world - from the African Zulu to the American Indians - have invented many ways to maximize fusion with the environment. True, unlike us, the distant ancestors borrowed the technique exclusively from nature.
It is known that many animals have adapted to "merge" with the surrounding landscape, hiding from danger or, on the contrary, preparing for an attack. Their camouflage still serves as an example of optimal camouflage that allows a soldier to become invisible on the ground.
Martial arts schools have also addressed this issue. Training in them, as you know, includes not only many hours of training the body, but also the spirit. So, samurai and invisible ninja knew how to perfectly dissolve in the night or fall from the crown of trees in a sudden deadly hurricane.
Modern man is fundamentally different from his ancestors not only in lifestyle, but also in thinking. We strongly believe in modern science, and are ready to spend colossal purely material resources to achieve any, even the most incredible goal.
MISSION POSSIBLE
Of course, many believe that humanity has long left fairy tales in its distant childhood, and they are mistaken. Even today, magic folklore is a storehouse of promising ideas and inspiration for scientists around the world. Having realized the ideas of an airplane carpet, mirrors and saucers in which one can observe events at a distance, and other "miracles", we proceeded to the synthesis of "living water" and "invisible caps".
The first to get down to business were German scientists who conducted very bold experiments at the end of the 19th century. The success was impressive - they learned to achieve transparency of individual parts of the human body and even small animals. At first, this happened when the object was placed in a special solution, and then in air. True, there was a small problem here.
The experiments were not conducted on living things, because the substances used by the researchers were incredibly poisonous. But dashing trouble has begun!
Today, in equipped laboratories around the world, biologists, physicists and chemists are hard at work solving the problem of invisibility. And by no means out of altruistic motives. There is a very specific and well paid order.
They are working on this as zealously as on the development of chemical, biological and other weapons of mass destruction … And already in the last century invisible fighter planes rose into the sky, although the idea as a whole still needs to be improved.