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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

wow - nothingness

when i get a migraine, this would be PERFECT (i don't normally suffer from them. at least not frequently. perhaps once or twice a year. they ARE debilitating though)

Their Deepest, Darkest Discovery
Scientists Create a Black That Erases Virtually All Light


By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer
Black is getting blacker.
Researchers in
New York reported this month that they have created a paper-thin material that absorbs 99.955 percent of the light that hits it, making it by far the darkest substance ever made -- about 30 times as dark as the government's current standard for blackest black.
The material, made of hollow fibers, is a Roach Motel for photons -- light checks in, but it never checks out. By voraciously sucking up all surrounding illumination, it can give those who gaze on it a dizzying sensation of nothingness.
"It's very deep, like in a forest on the darkest night," said Shawn-Yu Lin, a scientist who helped create the material at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. "Nothing comes back to you. It's very, very, very dark." .......

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I want some of this . . .

I want to look into nothingness and get dizzy.

Unknown said...

scary AND cool. i tried to post a picture of the cloaked klingon ship (yesterday) but blogger wasn't cooperating. i thought the pic would be appropriate!