Monday, January 14, 2008

Once Again, Texas Leads the Way

This time, in darkness.

Rice researchers make a dark discovery | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "In the iconic movie This is Spinal Tap, lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel said of his band's black album cover, 'It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.'

He was wrong.

A scientist at Rice University has created the darkest material known to man, a carpet of carbon nanotubes that reflects only 0.045 percent of all light shined upon it. That's four times darker than the previously darkest known substance, and more than 100 times darker than the paint on a black Corvette."

4 comments:

Jayme Lynn Blaschke said...

Are they gonna call it "fuligin"?

Cap'n Bob said...

Have they ever measured Nipsey Russell?

Anonymous said...

What does four times darker mean? We were always told to avoid that kind of construction.

Anonymous said...

That means it can absorb four times as much light, and still support a teacup on a saucer...if you hold it just so...