From: Peter Eyland (epe@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au) Date: Wed Oct 23
1996 - 22:19:17 EDT  >since no-one can make an image of the
invisible  To comment on a different aspect: There are many
examples of *images of the invisible*. If invisible means not
able to be seen with the naked eye. Atomic force microscopes
make images of individual atoms whose size is less than the
wavelengths of visible light. In the movies *silence of the
lambs*, and the one with Harrison Ford and the Irish terrorists,
the villains used night vision equipment to image what otherwise
couldn't be seen.  In the episode: When Jesus held up the coin
and said "Whose EIKWN and inscription is this?"  I would take it
that the response to this, by those present at the time, was not
just an intellectual recognition of visual likeness. It was an
existential apprehension of the reality of the presence and
power of the imperator. (Not physically of course, coin usage
defined the extent of the ruler's authority.)  The modern
perception can be illustrated i