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Engineers Create the Blackest Material Yet (phys.org)
schwit1 writes: Researchers have created the least reflective material ever made, using as inspiration the scales on the all-white cyphochilus beetle. The result was an extremely tiny nanoparticle rod resting on an equally tiny nanoparticle sphere (30 nm diameter) which was able to absorb approximately 98 to 99 percent of the light in the spectrum between 400 and 1,400nm, which meant it was able to absorb approximately 26 percent more light than any other known material — and it does so from all angles and polarizations.
I'm wondering if this could be used to improve the efficency of solar thermal generators.
We have entered the zone of no return.
Please make sure you pick up all of your luggage on the way.
so black that she absorbs approximately 98 to 99 percent of the light in the spectrum between 400 and 1,400nm!
So this is what Disaster Area painted their ship with.
How much black could it be? None more black.
Try again, looks gold to me
I'd like to see how black it really is.
Blackity Black Black?
I come here for the love
As I recall the previous blackest material ever was already being mass produced for various buyers, how's this one compare in that respect?
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
is exactly what dark mater is made up of!
pp: showboat
It's blacker.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I want to see it painted, painted, painted, painted black. Yeah!
... to rap?
...and the answer is... 1-2%. 1-2% more black.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Just sayin...
Please, enough with the Jeb Bush jokes already.
The man's allowed to fail on his own.
Jeesh!
I call BS. How could you take a picture of these 'black things' /.'rs are so easily fooled....
since they do NOT reflect light back to the camera's sensor.
I bet Derek Zoolander will look great in this on the runway!
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Polar Scope Align for iOS
What are the practical applications for a breakthrough like this? Other than for a government that wants to do some redacting of their documents.
Right, and how does it compare to souls of Satya Nadella, Tim Cook, Obama or Bush jr?
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
What about the hearts of some politicians?
Scientists have created the whitest material yet, also! The tentative name for it is "Vanilla Ice".
When I was in high school in the 80's and was taught the Wien and black body radiation model, our teacher told us that there is way to produce a "black body surface" which absorbs virtually all incoming radiation (more than the TFA:s 98-99%), and that is to make a chamber with the inside walls painted black and to drill a hole in one of the walls of the chamber. That orifice will be a very, very good approximation of a black body.
Granted, it's kind of hard to construct objects with orifices only...
How much blacker?
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Is there an echo in here?
is going to use this stuff to make a Halloween costume this year.
How much different is it than this?
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
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It's so black, it's offended at the racist joke I was trying to come up with referencing fried chicken, being good at dancing, and naming girls with names that end in "isha"...
1. Possibly could be used as part of stealthy tech for drone and airplane design.
2. Immediately draws all LAPD officers within a 10-block radius.
as black as Hillary Clinton's heart? I doubt it.
"Entangle" two photons, send one to be absorbed into this black material. Measure the others spin angle.... ooo look it still has a spin angle, yet the "entangled" photon no longer exists!
So much for entanglement.
What do you mean, "so much for entanglement?" Your thought experiment says nothing about it. Why would absorbing one entangled photon stop the other from having a spin? There's no such thing as a photon without spin.
Ergo I've proved Einstein wrong, with my "spooky paint color transfer effect"....
Have you ever considered the possibility that you're not smart enough to comprehend that there are things you don't comprehend?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I bet it's not as black as our Mam's Black Pudding. One day she made a Black Pudding so black, even t'white bits were black.
:)
And if you get that reference you must be as old as me
Have you ever considered the possibility that you have no sense of humour? Because the comment you're responding to looked like a joke to me....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
"Why would absorbing one entangled photon stop the other from having a spin? There's no such thing as a photon without spin"
I can measure the spin of the entangled photon, which must set the spin of the now no-existent photon, which would be impossible because the other photon is no more...
"Have you ever considered the possibility that you're not smart enough to comprehend that there are things you don't comprehend?"
Have you considered that Einstein pulled a simple logic problem out of his ass to show the bogus nature of entanglement?
Really, how can look at Quantum Eraser, and not see that you've taken a signal consisting of {noise}+{rare 45 degree photons passing both polarizers} then filtered for the short time when you know the {rare 45 degree passing both polarizers} is present to eliminate the noise and reveal the signal.
It's trivial to understand, and Einstein pointed out the bogus nature of this thinking.
This cloak will only be used by the members of the Autarch's Order of the Seekers for Truth and Penitence.
Still not as black as my ex-wife's heart.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I'm disappointed they didn't call it Dolemite, but I suppose you would want to reserve that one for a provably-blackest material.
"It's the weird colour scheme that freaks me. Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls, which are labeled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it."
If only this material had been available when Spinal Tap put out that album...
Scoffs at your somewhat blackish material, awaits actual wearable black hole.
Pretending this is my office full of bitter coworkers..
- Too black to see.
- That's the blackest black ever, fam.
- That's blacker than my cousin Femi.
What percentage of those who have gone this black are able to go back?
So the first picture looks like someone drew a bunch of penises on a table.
Perhaps they could make this black surface even blacker if they lengthen the rod and add an extra sphere next to the sphere
oo==>
It's a joke but not the funny kind. The OP actually appears to be serious given his response.
Eleven. That's one blacker.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
only hackers have true black dye tubs
lose != loose
This must be how they made the Disaster Area stunt ships
Andy Warhol got it right / Everybody gets the limelight
Andy Warhol got it wrong / Fifteen minutes is too long.
can measure the spin of the entangled photon, which must set the spin of the now no-existent photon, which would be impossible because the other photon is no more...
Nope, there is no requirement that it must set the spin of another photon under any conditions. Any operation that forces one of the halves of an entangled pair to a particular state just simply breaks the entanglement, i.e. transitions that the state of the system to one that is not entangled. This would be dead obvious if you actually study quantum mechanics, because it is a simple projection operation, about as easy as the math gets. There are plenty of operations, absorption of a photon being one, that simply just break the entanglement.
No its not he funny kind. It's the ironic kind.
Just as entanglement is simply filtering noise from signal, so the Physics degree separates the believers from the non-believers. So to be a Physicist you must have passed your QM course and be a believer.
Yet clearly its wrong, so the people who failed the QM course were more likely to be better Physicists!
You understand Bells, yet you apply it to a filtered subset of photons that have the property you want that would prove your theorum! And this fault passes Physics peer review because you've all been taught the same flaw and were filtered for your blind spot to the flaw!
It's almost like you're all entangled!
If I change one you to see the flaw, will you all instantly change by spooky distance effect? Even the dead ones?.... Now *that* would be irony.
It'sbnot as black as my heart... or my lungs. I smoke two packs a day.
(Using parentheses instead of angled brackets for bra-ket notation, because I am too lazy to html-ize the angle brackets, also ignoring normalization which is easy enough to figure out)
Two photons are entangled, A and B.
Ok, assuming you creating state |L)_A x |L)_B - |R)_A x |R)_B (you're being so vague using words so as to not really specify).
B is entangled with a third photon C.
Again, being quite vague, but assuming you mean you're creating some state where all three are entangled to have the same polarization: |L)_A x |L)_B x |L)_C - |R)_A x |R)_B x |R)_C
B then hits this black body and is destroyed.
Ok, so you're getting rid of photon B in some way such that you don't care about the polarization, you are just projecting with (R|_B+(L|_B)... so you get:
|L)_A x |L)_C - |R)_A x |R)_C
I then measure the spin of A, and by "spooky effect across time and space" the spin of C is set to be the same. Even though B was destroyed by this black body.
Well duh, you've created a system state that is just an entanglement of A and C. There is nothing stopping you from removing a particle from an entangled state. This works even in the much simpler case of just two entangled particles, which was wrong in the original post. If you have two entangled photons and you destroy one or force one into a particular state instead of just measuring it, you destroy the entangled state and the second photon is just left in whatever superposition is left over from projecting the first photon onto a state. |L)_A x |L)_B - |R)_A x |R)_B projected by destroying the photon B just removes it and leaves you with |L)_A-|R)_A, a vanilla non-entangled superposition.
Maybe you should learn the basics of the topics before claiming to understand it well enough to prove it wrong. This is stuff that gets taught to first or second year physics students (or even senior engineering students, who seem to handle bra-ket notation just fine).
The particles absorb photons over a wide band, violet through 'thermal'. Presumably the energy is dissipated as though from a black body unless it is removed by conduction. For example when illuminated by visible light they would radiate mostly in the infrared (unless the absorbed energy is removed by conduction) and would be seen to glow in infrared.
If they could be tweaked to absorb better at a wavelength that is best transmitted by human tissue and attached to an antibody that attaches to cancer cells they might be used as antennae to heat and destroy the cells.
Nate
Just as entanglement is simply filtering noise from signal, so the Physics degree separates the believers from the non-believers. So to be a Physicist you must have passed your QM course and be a believer.
And yet you get it so wrong, you are just fighting a straw man. You can't prove something wrong if you just make up statements that have no relationship to what you are trying to prove wrong, regardless of how right or wrong it is. If you say the Bible is wrong because of how it says blue kangaroos can fly, both people who believe in the Bible and those who don't will see your proof as BS if they have any idea what it actually says.
One doesn't have to pass a QM course to argue against it. But one does have to have at least a clue what QM actually says to say what it says is wrong. If this were so important, then getting the intro QM course material would be by far the easiest path to learning what it says, considering you can get through it with just high level high school math and less than a year's time.
Where are the photos of this new blackest materiel yet?!
3/5th's more
That dude can absorb the light of a thousand suns.
"It's like, 'how much more black could this be?' and the answer is 'None. None more black."
Natxium
Are the creators of this material even aware of Vantablack? Their new material seems far inferior ...
In other news, Metallica sues engineers for creating something darker than Metallica.
This kind of thing is a black art, practiced only by the darkest of souls, out of the light, in the shadows. Probably while eating black licorice and drinking black coffee.
You simply can't trust people like that.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Apk's right again. Fisted's sockpuppet downmods to hide his fails vs. apk. Dumb fuck doesn't know we see it + apk posts again unlimitedly unlike most ac posters. Fisted's inferiority manifests itself in this.
Apk's right again. Fisted's sockpuppet downmods to hide his fails vs. apk. Dumb fuck doesn't know we see it + apk posts again unlimitedly unlike most ac posters. Fisted's inferiority manifests itself in this!
Apk's right again. Fisted's sockpuppet downmods to hide his fails vs. apk. Dumb fuck doesn't know we see it + apk posts again unlimitedly unlike most acs. Fisted's inferiority shows itself in this!
See subject: Apparently your dim brain can't retain it. Microsoft & Amazon do wonders vs. DDoS http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
APK
P.S.=> Do you REALIZE how easy you are to dismantle & utterly CRUSH, fool?
Man - Your own lack of intelligence + trolling me first made it easy for me to do... lol!
So, THANK YOU for the laughs - enjoy others LAUGHING @ YOU now TOO, lmao... apk
"I'm highly satisfied by the amount of butthurt I apparently caused you by simply asking for the source code to your malware" - by fisted (2295862) on Sunday October 25, 2015 @12:19PM (#50797625)
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&
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In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
For "good measure" & to make a libelous LITTLE BLOWARD DO NOTHING WORM like you "eat his words" more? This too:
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APK
P.S.=> R O T F L M A O - @ the risk of furthering fisted the BLOWHARD's "FoAmiNg-@-TeH-MouTh" impotent rage some more (trust me, the spittle will FLY from his piehole as you're all about to see, lol)?
Last time I requested this "the great genius" (not, lol) Fisted flew into a "RaGe" being made helpless as USUAL @ my SUPERIOR hands -> http://it.slashdot.org/comment... LMAO... apk
"Your source code is shit and you know it" - by fisted (2295862) on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @09:04PM (#50770245)
See subject: Where's yours others here like & Malwarebytes folks host + recommend http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & have source to? LOL, it's not!
I'm NOT obligated to give away MY work to be misused as Chrome's was-> http://it.slashdot.org/story/1... which you ADMIT I'm not http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
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"I'm highly satisfied by the amount of butthurt I apparently caused you by simply asking for the source code to your malware" - by fisted (2295862) on Sunday October 25, 2015 @12:19PM (#50797625)
Where's your 'summary' vs. ~60 antiviruses finding my ware safe from 3 diff. sources-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment... ?
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"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"Actually, APK is totally right on this count. Adblock Plus on Firefox mobile is a dog on older, or lower end, phones. A hostfile based adblocker makes for a much better experience in this context. Of course, your phone has to be rooted" - by chihowa (366380) on Saturday May 16, 2015 @11:40AM (#49705641)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
APK
P.S.=> Stuck your FOOT IN YOUR MOUTH & rammed yer words down yer throat w/ "the bitter taste of SELF-defeat"
See subject & "run", forrest: Was more satisfying seeing you eat your words + prove you have zero to compare http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* :)
* Big talking BLOWHARD troll that you are... lol! Lots of "talk" outta you, no action!
APK
P.S.=> See subject - As usual, I'm already FAR IN ADVANCE of your obviously dull brain having posted that link above already!
Just to see you "squirm" worm!
So - going to TRY "forums slide" bury it again? LOL, or downmod everything I post here down with your sockpuppets?? Go for it - I'll crush you with ease AND GET THE LAST WORD (which "your kind" always has to try have, but my kind SMASHES YOU INTO THE GROUND) on your do-nothing ass again easily... face facts:
Vs. myself, your superior? You are POWERLESS... lol! apk
Apk's right again. Fisted's sockpuppet downmods to hide his fails vs. apk. Dumb fuck doesn't know we see it + apk posts again unlimitedly unlike most acs. Fisted's inferiority shows itself in this.
Apk's right again. Fisted's sockpuppet downmods to hide his fails vs. apk. Dumb fuck doesn't know we see it + apk posts again unlimitedly unlike most acs. Fisted's inferiority shows again.
Apk's right again. Fisted's sockpuppet downmods to hide his fails vs. apk. Dumb fuck doesn't know we see it + apk posts again unlimitedly unlike most acs. Fisted's inferiority shows itself again!
Apk's right again. Fisted's sockpuppet downmods to hide his fails vs. apk. Dumb fuck doesn't know we see it + apk posts again unlimitedly unlike most acs. Fisted's inferiority shows itself in this!!!
"I'm highly satisfied by the amount of butthurt I apparently caused you by simply asking for the source code to your malware" - by fisted (2295862) on Sunday October 25, 2015 @12:19PM (#50797625)
See subject: MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
&
It's safe proven by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
In its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
For "good measure" & to make a libelous LITTLE BLOWARD DO NOTHING WORM like you "eat his words" more? This too:
http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
APK
P.S.=> R O T F L M A O - @ the risk of furthering fisted the BLOWHARD's "FoAmiNg-@-TeH-MouTh" impotent rage some more (trust me, the spittle will FLY from his piehole as you're all about to see, lol)?
Last time I requested this "the great genius" (not, lol) Fisted flew into a "RaGe" being made helpless as USUAL @ my SUPERIOR hands -> http://it.slashdot.org/comment... LMAO... apk
Last year 99.96 % absorption was achieved.
Black is the absence of color.
racist.
We just talkin' 'bout Shaft!
Weird how you can turn your mentalness off briefly when going into sockpuppet mode. I mean it must take a titanic effort not to put random "words" into scarequotes and leave things unbolded.
"It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black."
What if.... they combined the blackest material ever, with the most metal material ever?!??
I was going for this but I think the AC's "3/5ths blacker" might win.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
I thought this was going to be some new videos from the Apollo.
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
Weird how apk made you eat your words on DDoS fisted http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... and you're doing sockpuppet mode as you call it now fools nobody.