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I’m such a dirty liar.
But I want to see infrared light. And once I quit my day job, I’ll make it my life’s work to figure out how I can see infrared light with my own eyeballs.
If you don’t know what infrared light is, I’ll tell you below. It’s not too nerdy but feel free to skip it.
***Nerdy explanation of infrared light***
The light that you can see things with is only one small part of all of the different lights we come in contact with daily. The part of the light spectrum that we can see is between infrared light and ultraviolet light. Infrared light waves are very long and ultraviolet light rays are very short. Too long and short for our almost worthless eyeballs to register. But you can still damage your eyes with ultraviolet light if you look directly into the sun with binoculars. And the rays from ultraviolet supposedly damage your skin when you’re at the beach trying to have a good time.
***Done with nerdy explanation***
Basically, infrared light rays are too long for us to see with our horrible human eyes. But I think it would rock if we could. At least if I could.
Where I Got Such a Brilliant Idea
I got the idea while watching my cat one night. She can see crazy things in the dark and can hear the smallest little poot that I make when I think no one else can hear. She gives me a knowing look and I turn away in disgrace. But if she can see and hear all that, I can imagine that she can see infrared light too.
I doubt anybody would believe me if I said I could see infrared light though. I’d be some normal dude with eyes that look like everybody else’s eyes. But I’ll say, “See that hot thing over there??? Yeah, I can see it looking hot!” They’ll say, “Yeah I turned it on about 5 minutes ago and it has a pot of boiling water on top of it. OF COURSE IT’S HOT!!!”
I guess that wouldn’t be so special.
But just think how cool it would be if you could see infrared light.
The Benefits of Seeing Infrared Light
- You could SEE HEAT!
- Your television remote would turn into a channel changing laser!!! You can beam people in the head and LAUGH. They may think you’re crazy but crazy people have more fun!
- You can see people, pets, and anything that produces heat in complete darkness!
- You’d never have to touch anything to see if it’s hot.
- You’d always see me coming because I’m soooooooo hot.
Don’t you think that would be AWESOME?!?!?!?
For more information on infrared light, read these links:
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/nightvision1.htm
http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/about_cara/defn/irlight.html
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Ha! That was great! Would definitely be cool to be able to see like the Predator whenever you wanted to. The first thing you should utilize infrared vision for should be to view the ladies at the bar. It would be cool to be able to detect the mood they’re in based on the amount of body heat they’re generating, haha
I definitely thought about that too! I’m glad I’m not the only one who lusts after the ability to see in infrared.
I can sorta see infrared. Allow me to explain: When my camera is autofocusing, I can see pulses where everything gets a just a fraction brighter, and you’re right, I can’t see it through my glasses, only my peripheral vision, where my glasses don’t cover my field of vision.
That’s really interesting. Maybe if you keep working on it, you can find a way to use that outside of the camera.