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An Invisible Creep Got Us
(Just Bae)

Max Lieberman was a junior at Huntsville University of Quantum Physics. In his hours off, he assisted his professor, Dr. Brad Cohen, who taught the school's optometry courses. Dr. Cohen was working on a transfiguration that would alter the refractive index of light reflecting from matter. Its light would not bend when passing through, thereby making a cloaked organism merely invisible.

Dr. Cohen, however, could not claim full credit for his work. Two other professors in the country had conducted the most significant study of its kind, developing a cloaking device that relied on super lenses that make light reacts in abstract ways. Dr. Cohen wanted to outdo the two so he began cloaking small animals such as mice, monkeys, dogs, and birds. Birds were the most problematic because they often would escape from the cage. Dr. Cohen, Max and a few of Cohen's assistants gratefully caught the things, but only because of their droppings that fell from the air. Fluids released by the birds would not themselves be invisible, as they were outside the boundaries of the cloak.

Yet, there was one problem; any person made invisible by Dr. Cohen's method would be blinded, since the human eye works by absorbing incoming light. If the light was refracted, no senses would reach the retina.

Max, Dr. Cohen's assistant had a suggestion.

"Let me be the first cloaked human."

"Young Max... I don't want to have to go the ethics board to recruit students as guinea pigs."

"But Professor, we can make history..."

Dr. Cohen wanted to keep the cloaking device secret as long as possible. He was in a race of time against the two masterminds.

"I will do it on myself."

"No, Professor."

"Hurry along, Young Max. I have work to do."

"But, Professor Cohen."

"See you in the morning."



Dr. Cohen, after class, went to his lab, and as he got ready to begin the experiment, Young Max entered.

"I will do it, Professor, please. The university needs you. I've been working with you and know this experiment better than anyone else."

"But Max, you may become invisible forever."

"Professor, we must do this before the two Russian professors beat us to it."

"Yes, Young Max. I do agree."