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if something invisible is glowing could you see it?
This_Cruel_Moon

invisible things can't glow

M1m1c15
They can, you just wouldn’t be able to see it, because if you can see the light from an object, which is part of what makes it invisible, glowing is just emitting a lot of light, so no, you wouldn’t be able to see it
snoozyman
No
This_Cruel_Moon

The definition of glowing is emitting light, so if it is invisible, it cannot glow.

Maybe it can glow outside the visible spectrum, but you still can't see it

M1m1c15
Things can still emit light that you can’t see lol, you cant see infrared light, but it’s there
DefenderPug2

*eats cheez-its trying to answer this question*

Gymstar

it would be invisible

kidathome07
#7 i was doing that too!
Airalla
No, because if you could see it then it isn’t invisible
DefenderPug2

Water is clear, and yet you see that right? So what’s not to say the same with this?

This_Cruel_Moon
DefenderPug2 wrote:

Water is clear, and yet you see that right? So what’s not to say the same with this?

There is a big difference between clear and invisible

DefenderPug2

Well, no organisms are truly invisible. So this question doesn’t work

This_Cruel_Moon

not necessarily organisms, non-organic things could be invisible too

rmc123456

This is just a rephrasing of Berkeley's Tree Problem:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest

rmc123456

@Mr-Mudd We see photons, which have some kind of materiality according to my possibly flawed understanding.