Your Blackness Sickates Me

[AK-74me]

Taking black to a new level.

New material pushes the boundary of blackness - Yahoo! News

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers said on Tuesday they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light.

Made from tiny tubes of carbon standing on end, this material is almost 30 times darker than a carbon substance used by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology as the current benchmark of blackness.

And the material is close to the long-sought ideal black, which could absorb all colors of light and reflect none.

"All the light that goes in is basically absorbed," Pulickel Ajayan, who led the research team at Rice University in Houston, said in a telephone interview. "It is almost pushing the limit of how much light can be absorbed into one material."

The substance has a total reflective index of 0.045 percent -- which is more than three times darker than the nickel-phosphorous alloy that now holds the record as the world's darkest material.

Basic black paint, by comparison, has a reflective index of 5 percent to 10 percent.

[_MightyMouse_]

Is this where the term "krunk" came from?

What does sickates mean please?

[bcp (Premo)]

if all light is absorbed and none ever released, since light is matter, would this material not gain weight over time?

Come on people its 0530, somebody has to have an equation to show how this would happen.

[bcp (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Dixie

What does sickates mean please?

I think it means to expand in girth like a spandex clad wal-mart shopper.

Originally Posted by bcp

I think it means to expand in girth like a spandex clad wal-mart shopper.

Oh - no wonder I couldn't find it in the dictionary.

[AK-74me]

Originally Posted by Dixie

What does sickates mean please?

You obvisously have not been to the school of the illustrious Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or Louis Farrakhan.


Looking for the image of Farrakhan with the quote "Your whiteness sickiates me"

[Homer J]

So if our eyes see an object by picking up reflected light, would we be able to see this stuff?

While we are at it, if you could drive your car at the speed of light, and you turned on your headlights, would they shine forward or would you catch up to them?

[AK-74me]

Originally Posted by Homer J

So if our eyes see an object by picking up reflected light, would we be able to see this stuff?

While we are at it, if you could drive your car at the speed of light, and you turned on your headlights, would they shine forward or would you catch up to them?

If you put a plane on a tread mill and cranked it up to 500 mph would it achieve flight?

[_MightyMouse_]

Originally Posted by AK-74me

If you put a plane on a tread mill and cranked it up to 500 mph would it achieve flight?

It depends on the incline setting of the treadmill