What's more real, things that are visible or invisible?

Question

Although similar a similar question has been asked, I pose it in a different way to the physics oriented minds.

Have a go at while providing some proof.

Answer 1

something visible means that it emits (or reflects) light.

something invisible means that it will neither emits nor reflect light... What does that have to do with reality?

Both are equaly real as long as you have a proof of its existence.

Answer 2

Visible, taken in the larger context, means detectability. Similarly, if something is not detectable, it may be termed as invisible.

Hence if something is detectable, there is clear evidence of its existence, therefore is "more" real than something that is not detectable.

However, we cannot assume that if something is not detectable, therefore it is not real. We can say that it is "invisible" to our current detectors, for the time being. In the fture, we may invent a better detector and then we will be able to "see" that which is currently "invisible'.

We cannot see our thoughs, but we can do some scan of our brain and see patches of activity. So, are our thoughts for real. Clearly, we know that it is real, we use it everyday. However, to show it is still quite challenging.

Ultransonic sound in the above, 20 KHz is "invisible" (inaudible) to human, but we can use high frequency detectors to show that they exist, and dogs can hear them too.

Answer 3

From a physic's point we have to admit that invisible things are more real. Almost all physic properties are invisible: force, velocity, temperature, pressure, etc, etc. but are more real than an image in front of mine, because what I'm looking can be an illusion, a mirage, etc.

Answer 4

There is no general answer to such a question. Some things that are visible turn out to have been illusions. Some things that are invisible are nonetheless real.

Answer 5

They are both real if there is some means of detecting them. This implies that there must be some sort of interaction that permits a distinguishing of whether the thing is there or not there. If no such means exists, then there is no need or use to claim that the thing is real: I could claim that it is there, or that it is not there, and in neither case could you prove me wrong.

Answer 6

Reality is reality. There is the physical, where mass energy, and time seem as separate values, but are not. There is, also, that of the spiritual - that which influences mankind toward good and evil. In all these instances, the reality exists because there is a particular form of existence in present time.

Answer 7

The question is incomplete.

What means 'real'?

"More or less real" implies some kind of 'metric' such as pounds or meters such that a things relative degree fo 'realness' can be measured and compared against other things.

What is this metric and how is it computed?


Doug

Answer 8

Visible things or those you can feel like air in motin or in different temperatures are more real than the invisible ones.

Answer 9

Technically, they can both be equally real, some doubt like Thomas, but it doesn't make Jesus less real.

Answer 10

I wonder how this question qualifies to enter into the "Physics" area...