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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Michael Jackson - Billie Jean] Why do the tiles light up below Michael when he has his invisibility field on? Surely this side effect defeats the whole purpose of this technology?
gpt
The tiles appear to be either pressure sensitive or capacitance/proximity sensitive. Neither would be effected by invisibility as that is a different effect than levitation or fading to the astral. So in the particular such tiles would be created to do that very thwarting.

It would indeed defeat the purpose of being "invisible" if that purpose is to "pass without trace", as opposed to being "unseen" or immune to laser fire.

But you've missed the actual point, and technologies, completely.

There is actually no technology in "the tiles". Those objects are all completely mundane. Michael himself is causing them to glow at his touch by act of will. This is why the concrete, the pole, and the mailbox all act identically despite having distinctly different construction, composition, and purpose.

So why go invisible and still cause the objects to glow? To fuck with people.

Michael is "The Cheshire Cat", appearing at will and affecting what he desires to affect.