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H.G. Wells wrote a famous novel about a man who made himself invisible by changing his index of refraction. What would his index of refraction have to be to accomplish this?

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So, change in refractive index of an object making it invisible when you have negative refractive index of the refractive index of an object equal to that of its surrounding.

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