If everything was invisible, what would we see?

Question

My 10 year old asked me this question this moring! Please help!

Answer 1

Bright light in your eyes from smashing into that damned invisible wall to the invisible restaurant that those inconsiderate construction workers are building.

Answer 2

We wouldn't see, in order to see there must be something to be seen.

Answer 3

Why would we see at all?  Eyes are an evolutionary device to help organisms find food and escape from danger.  If everything was invisible, we'd concentrate on other senses.  Smell, touch, hearing, electrical vibrations.

Answer 4

Ha... If everything was invisible, we would definitely not see this question. LOL

Answer 5

that is a good question...i guess black maybe? look it up on the internet. i would guess black

Answer 6

pretty much same as a blind person  

Answer 7

G-d's light. Think of it as a puppet show, over time we become so used to the puppets moving around by their own that we fail to realize that  the puppets are actually inanimate by themselves without the puppet master's hand. Thus if the puppets were invisible, only the puppet master's hand would be revealed - the vitalizing force or G-d's light. In this sense we would realize that our consciousness comes from nothing but G-d Himself playing with puppets and becoming attached to the puppets being played with.

Answer 8

If everything were invisible there wouldn't be invisibility it would be the norm if there is no love what is hate. To define anything you have to have a comparison. If there is nothing but invisibility you would be seeing invisibility itself and there would be nothing to compare it to so it would cease to be invisibility. It would become nothing.

Answer 9

Not much.

Reminds me of a quote:

At first there was nothing. Then God said, "Let there be light" -- and there was still nothing, but at least you could see it.

;- )

Answer 10

everything and nothing, considering one was born with everything being invisible. if everything were invisible there would be no visible distinction.

example of this inability of visible distinction: someone born blind will never know what black looks like, because they have never seen it.

edit: wow, your 10 year old has really gotten me thinking. it seems paradoxical.  only being able to see absolutely nothing is actually seeing everything, because you will be viewing everything you can possibly see. it could be concluded that you would just be seeing everything, although everything that you are seeing is comprised of nothing. so ultimately, you would see everything.