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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Make it a UV laser and it would be invisible.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

demonstrating that he can point a laser that's invisible to the human eye at a faraway laptop, through a window, and detect the computer's vibrations to reconstruct virtually every character typed on it

Infrared is not visible

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

It is visible to security cameras

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Infrared doesn't pass through windows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

actually thats UV. transition lenses won't change with a glass window thats not open. infrared is basically heat and does indeed pass through. Cars in the sun would not get hot so fast if they did not let in infrared.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have an IR camera and windows look like mirrors. Might depend on the type of glass idk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if this yahoo from the internet I found in a search is right then its both:

"Glass will bock low frequency IR (red hot), but allow the passage of high frequency (white hot) IR. Hence, the heat of the sun will easily pass into a greenhouse, but once this energy is converted into low frequency heat by the objects within that absorb it, then the resulting low frequency heat is trapped. Hence, the Greenhouse Effect."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That makes a lot of sense, thanks for doing the homework!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

It's already infrared. Also, UV is partially visible to humans in some scenarios.