The Blackest Black

[canker2323]

I want to get some of this stuff...

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-o...d-s-blackest-pigment-and-it-s-freaking-us-out

Vantablack is so dark, it's almost impossible for the human eye to perceive it - we need some order of reflected light for our brains to be able to process what's in front of us. As a result, the team says the observer's ability to perceive gets confused, and some people say looking at Vantablack is like looking into a bottomless hole.

 

[Entropy]

 

[coolerifyoudid]

 

[CYCLNST8]

1:30

 

[jcyclonee]

 

[jbindm]

How long before we see the Oregon football team sporting helmets sprayed with this stuff?

 

[Bret44]

 

[Clonehomer]

I want to get some of this stuff...

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-o...d-s-blackest-pigment-and-it-s-freaking-us-out

Vantablack is so dark, it's almost impossible for the human eye to perceive it - we need some order of reflected light for our brains to be able to process what's in front of us. As a result, the team says the observer's ability to perceive gets confused, and some people say looking at Vantablack is like looking into a bottomless hole.

What's throwing me off is their use of the phrase 1,000 million. Isn't that just a billion?

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

I want to get some of this stuff...

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-o...d-s-blackest-pigment-and-it-s-freaking-us-out

Vantablack is so dark, it's almost impossible for the human eye to perceive it - we need some order of reflected light for our brains to be able to process what's in front of us. As a result, the team says the observer's ability to perceive gets confused, and some people say looking at Vantablack is like looking into a bottomless hole.

If I get a tshirt made of this will it hide my belly?

 

[canker2323]

I want to get some of this stuff...

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-o...d-s-blackest-pigment-and-it-s-freaking-us-out

Vantablack is so dark, it's almost impossible for the human eye to perceive it - we need some order of reflected light for our brains to be able to process what's in front of us. As a result, the team says the observer's ability to perceive gets confused, and some people say looking at Vantablack is like looking into a bottomless hole.

Here is a video of those painted masks.

 

[Omaha Cy]

I assume I can't buy this in a spray can at menards, and will this stuff be used to cloak ourselves from terminators or predators?

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I assume I can't buy this in a spray can at menards, and will this stuff be used to cloak ourselves from terminators or predators?

Won't help unless it also blocks infrared & scent...

 

[VeloClone]

What's throwing me off is their use of the phrase 1,000 million. Isn't that just a billion?

In the US billion has always meant 1,000 million (1,000,000,000 or short scale billion). In the UK that hasn't always been the case. It used to mean a million million (1,000,000,000,000 or long scale billion) but apparently they have generally come around the the US definition of billion. UK statistics have officially used the short scale billion since 1974.