If you were naked and invisible, would you still get sunburnt?

Question

Just curious...

Answer 1

It depends on the mechanism of invisibility.  If it were an sophisticated chameleon effect (precisely matching the background), then yes,  since the sunlight would still hit your skin - your skin would just change its color to match the color of some of that light.

If it were a sci-fi cloaking device that bent light around you, then maybe not.  If the device just bent visible light, then you would be invisible, but you would still absorb UV light (which would cause the sunburn).  You would also be visible to UV cameras.  You also wouldn't be able to see, since the light traveling towards your head would be bent around and sent out the other side without hitting your eyes.  If you widened the spectrum of the cloaking device so that it bent more kinds of light around you, then no, you wouldn't get a sunburn.  

Answer 2

No you wouldnt. The suns rays would go right through you. If they didnt you would have a shadow. That would be funny, watching just a shadow walk down the street.

Answer 3

No, the light would pass through you.

Answer 4

What an interesting question!!!

I would say "Yes", because even if you are invisible, you are solid mass, so the sun rays would still strike you...and being naked, you would burn in places no one will want to rub cream on you!

BTW, I have always joked about having and using an "invisibility shield" or "cloaking device" such as when a car pulls out right in front of me...I'll say to my passenger, "Darn I forgot to take off the invisibility shield!"

Answer 5

People can't be invisible, but they can camouflage. But as miscellaneous, you'll not get sunburn if you're invisible, as long as your skin is not represented, you can't get sunburn.

Answer 6

If your *invisible* then no light is reflecting off of you... simply passing *through* you. If its not reflecting off of you, then it isn't hitting you. The sun needs to hit on you to get a sunburn. So no, you wouldn't get sun burnt.  

Answer 7

It depends by which mechanism you were conferred invisibility.  If it is by a bending of light rays (photons around you, then if you were also able to bend photons of the ultraviolet spectrum, you would most definitely NOT get sunburned.  If you were only able to bend light of the visible spectrum or if you were rendered invisible by some other mechanism that didn't involve bending light around you, you would still burn (and peel)

Answer 8

I can't speak for anyone else, but I wouldn't because I've never had a sunburn in my life.

Answer 9

Yup..invisible to naked eye don't mean invisible to SUN