I've been wrestling on and off with questions and concepts, most
   of which I formed in elementary and in middle school - same age
   range (10-13ish mostly, some younger, some older).

   One of them was a thing I saw with my mind where I could see
   everything at once without color or reflection and the only way
   to tell things apart was through refraction of colorless light,
   yet everything otherwise stayed exactly the same.

   It's what happened when I asked myself, "What if there was no
   color?"

   At the time, after I came out of that thing I saw in my head
   (actually, I kind of saw it all around me superimposed. It was
   pretty cool, probably too much hot cocoa or candy but whatever),
   all I could think of is, "Maybe the electrons could cooperate
   and line up like miniblinds and the photons could just whiz
   through them".

   It's also the same thing my 11/12 year old mind came up with as
   an answer for how to pass through solid objects [cooperating
   electrons passing through next to each other and not annoying
   each other]

   42, going on 43 now, my thoughts on it really haven't changed.
   As much as I've learned since then, I really haven't. I'm still
   that 11 year old kid pondering things like that and having had
   30+ years, on and off, to research, hasn't given me an answer
   that comes closer to "why it wouldn't work", with the exception
   of one or two principles that, to me, still rather seem like
   fancy ways of saying, "IT IS WHAT IT IS NOW SHUT UP" rather than
   good explanations.

   Yeah, I think I was at my smartest then. Of course I've learned
   a lot since, but fundamentally? Not much. Just more details.