The Science Of Darkness: Pigments, The Cosmos and Nanotechnology

The first color used by human beings to express themselves artistically was black. The pigment used to create man’s first art was charcoal. A pigment is a material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light.
Unlike paints and inks which rely upon a pigment for color change, dyes chemically bond to the substrate it’s applied too. Early black vegetable based dyes were neither strong or stable and would quickly fade to brown and grey, especially when exposed to sunlight.
The obvious contrast offered by the color black would play a pivotal role in how humanity communicates non-verbally, via ink and the written word.
In the 15th century Johannes Gutenberg’s introduction of the printing press to Europe inherently required a new type of ink that would be compatible with the process.
These new durable inks paved the way for the mass dissemination of ideas through printed books and a new form of artistic expression, the engraved print. Even in the digital age of computer screens, this vestige remains one of the most common formats for presenting text. By the industrial era, organic colorants were beginning to be replaced by superior synthetic compounds. This led to black clothing gradually became the most popular color of business dress in the western world.
Our brains perceive color in response to electromagnetic radiation at combinations of the frequencies in the visual spectrum. What we perceive as the color black represents the experience of no visible light reaching our eyes. It’s important to note that black can only occur through absorption. From experiments going back to the 1800s, it was observed that all objects emit radiation but black objects in particular possess different radiant properties than reflective ones.
These observations led to a new understanding of the color black. Formalized by the Geman physicist Gustav Kirchhoff in 1860, a black body in its ideal form will absorb all electromagnetic radiation falling on it. In 1900, the British physicist Lord Rayleigh and Sir James Jeans presented the Rayleigh-Jeans law, which attempted to approximate this relationship. This rift between observation and prediction in classical physics was known as the ultraviolet catastrophe. The resolution to this dilemma came from German physicist Max Planck in the form of Planck's law.
With an understanding of how black objects absorb and reemit radiation, it became possible to measure temperature and other derived properties at a distance.
As black body radiation is emitted from deep within the star, it passes through its outer atmosphere. The only thing that is even closer to an ideal black body, and is in fact is the most perfect black-body radiator, and implicitly the blackest object ever observed in nature is the universe itself. The cosmic microwave background radiation as its observed today is the most flawless example of black-body radiation.
In the age of space exploration, materials darker than traditional black pigments would be required for increasing the performance of astronomical cameras, telescopes, and infrared scanning systems.
Gold back was one of the fist commonly used light absorbing nano structures. This causes the gold to form a nano-chains structure. These chains overlap on one another, joining together very loosely, resulting in a ‘fluffy’ porous structure that traps light. Gold black can absorb almost 99% of the light that falls on it.
The next level of high absorbing coatings would come from the National Physical Laboratory or NPL in the United Kingdom known as super black. Because the super black treatment is only a few microns thick it suffers from transparency in the infrared spectrum, making it only practical for visible light.
Taking its name from its structure, vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays, vantablack absorbs 99.96% of the light that falls on it. Furthermore, vantablack suffered from far less outgassing and degradation making it more suitable for commercial applications.
MIT created a technique that produced a material 10 times darker than Vantablack, absorbing 99.995% of visible light from all angles. Though the general mechanism of its "blackness" is similar to Vantablack, the mechanics of why this substrate and technique produced such a dramatic increase in absorption performance remains a mystery.
The concept of black will always be intertwined with technological advancement and furthering an understanding of our world.
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  • @KX36
    @KX364 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for not just making this just another youtube video all about Vantablack!

  • @ericlotze7724
    @ericlotze77244 жыл бұрын

    "The best example of black body radiation is a black cat lying in the sun" - My Dad

  • @sagebiddi

    @sagebiddi

    4 жыл бұрын

    "As a black guy with 2 1/2 black 🐈's that always wears black and carries black leather holsters and a black scabbard and black sheath on him at all times"- when out I'd like to concur and say .... Your dad is a smart man. My roommate always says how much heat constantly radiates off off me especially if I'm mad and or it's summer ... Came specifically looking for this type of comment

  • @steveno0007
    @steveno00074 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are so far-reaching. They explore so many Concepts and history in such a nice fluid way that just flows like a river

  • @DreamingConcepts

    @DreamingConcepts

    4 жыл бұрын

    channels like this can fully replace the obsolete formal education system.

  • @mocoj7423

    @mocoj7423

    4 жыл бұрын

    Right, a video titled "Black" and in the first 2 minutes I learn the technical differences between pigments and a dyes

  • @yehudaquinton1069

    @yehudaquinton1069

    2 жыл бұрын

    I dont mean to be off topic but does someone know a method to log back into an instagram account?? I stupidly forgot the account password. I love any tricks you can give me

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    @chriskellen6499

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Yehuda Quinton instablaster =)

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    @yehudaquinton1069

    2 жыл бұрын

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  • @LMFAOdudeification
    @LMFAOdudeification4 жыл бұрын

    Ah, charcoal. Unsung hero of so much of human history.

  • @MetallicReg

    @MetallicReg

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well carbon is basically the groundstone of life ;) Can’t get any more heroic.

  • @johnathancorgan3994

    @johnathancorgan3994

    4 жыл бұрын

    And according to Cody, good charcoal has no taste, either!

  • @jacobbaer785

    @jacobbaer785

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@johnathancorgan3994 knew there would be a Codys lab comment here

  • @liammckenna3100

    @liammckenna3100

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nano carbon tubes are used for the most deep black coating today 99.96 old news. 99.995 is the new black.

  • @fisterB

    @fisterB

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hasn't it been sung? All those arms and legs torn apart from their unhappy former owners to the song of thunder on the many bloody battle fields of history is the triumph of the charcoal in gunpowder over those poor guys. Somehow it was necessary but our history is the sad tale that most inventions is fueled by the need to destroy.

  • @apfyts
    @apfyts4 жыл бұрын

    The artist Renoir is quoted as saying, "I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colors was black".

  • @martiddy

    @martiddy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Painters: Black is a color! Physicists: No is not, is the lack of light. Neuroscientist: Color doesn't exist, is just a product of our brains. Philosopher: but, what is a color?

  • @aiGeis

    @aiGeis

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@martiddyThat's called solipsism, not philosophy.

  • @martiddy

    @martiddy

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@aiGeis do you even know what solipsism even is?, also solipsism is studied in philosophy so...

  • @f1ringfed

    @f1ringfed

    3 жыл бұрын

    @usmcusausaf read where exactly

  • @michaelmccarthy4615
    @michaelmccarthy46154 жыл бұрын

    "Any customer can have a car painted any color he wants, as long as its black" Henry Ford The model T could be painted any color. But Ford wanted to sell as many cars as cheap as possible. He took his famous assembly line idea all the way to one color only (at 1st) . It was sales marketing that later changed those plans.

  • @michaelmccarthy4615

    @michaelmccarthy4615

    4 жыл бұрын

    The only reason cars were painted at all in the early days was to protect the bare metal....

  • @12201185234

    @12201185234

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@michaelmccarthy4615 That's still the reason cars are painted.

  • @allangibson8494

    @allangibson8494

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@12201185234 Unless you buy a Delorean or one of the twenty or so Stainless Steel Fords. The plastic panelled cars from a number of manufacturers are also paint optional.

  • @mikafoxx2717

    @mikafoxx2717

    4 жыл бұрын

    The Fort Model T originally came in more colors than black, but due to the faster assembly line, only the black paint was used due to its faster drying time and ease of having only one colour.

  • @diggerpete9334

    @diggerpete9334

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Captain Obvious.

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    @FullFledged20104 жыл бұрын

    "No nonsense functionality" My all time favorite phrase 👌🙌

  • @theultimatereductionist7592
    @theultimatereductionist75924 жыл бұрын

    10:58 "Black hole's inability to capture radiation with a wavelength greater than the black hole." Wow! I never considered or thought about that! Thank you! Cool!

  • @nmarbletoe8210

    @nmarbletoe8210

    4 жыл бұрын

    that is a cool thought indeed! Hawking and Bekenstein used this fact to derive a formula for black hole entropy and temperature. I'm not sure, but it may be that any object is unable to absorb a wavelength larger than it.

  • @danielmaylett1710
    @danielmaylett17102 жыл бұрын

    You have the ability to ask all the right questions and then answer them in a really eloquent way! Love the content!

  • @The.Talent
    @The.Talent4 жыл бұрын

    Your channel is totally one of my top 5 favourites. Please never stop.

  • @leoholberg9776
    @leoholberg97764 жыл бұрын

    11:21 - with the kelvin scale, it is just called "Kelvin" and not "degrees Kelvin". Also it is written fx. 5K not 5°K. Great video!

  • @4dirt2racer0
    @4dirt2racer04 жыл бұрын

    this might b a little premature but congratulations on the success i havent been around since ur first video but i wasnt long after, n its been crazy to watch ur subs rise so fast n all the positive comments in the comments section, id say this venture was a success, time to quite the daytime job :p i obviously love ur videos u do such a good job at presenting info in n interesting way, and u get the point n info across without talkin the entire time

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    @ionelionell90854 жыл бұрын

    my best spent 15 minutes today and in a long time. nicely presented!

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    @tightirl4 жыл бұрын

    love your exploration of such a wide variety of topics. keep up the good work!

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    @killjoy994444 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video and informative as always. We appreciate the effort you put in. It really shows!

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    @poodlelord3 жыл бұрын

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  • @bigchieftomato
    @bigchieftomato4 жыл бұрын

    hell of a video brother, thanks for the in depth look at black from all angles

  • @michaelzlprime
    @michaelzlprime4 жыл бұрын

    When is the new video coming out?!? Your exploration of various topics is really fascinating, I would say without exaggeration, it's the best scientific/engineering content on youtube!

  • @CraftsmanShengCanweget10KSubs
    @CraftsmanShengCanweget10KSubs4 жыл бұрын

    please do " Science of Abrasion " You can do 3 part out of this topic alone

  • @VamsiMohanKrishnaVadrevu
    @VamsiMohanKrishnaVadrevu4 жыл бұрын

    Your video series should be made mandatory viewing for children learning Physics starting from Grade 5. It'll improve their thinking ability

  • @TheMogd0r
    @TheMogd0r4 жыл бұрын

    Had a feeling this would be fascinating. Glad I followed that intuition. Amazing video

  • @jamesbarisitz4794
    @jamesbarisitz47944 жыл бұрын

    Well told storey with fantastic side tidbits of facts surrounding the main idea. This is some of the best science / history anywhere. (new viewer) Subscribing now. 👍

  • @realmaxifuchs
    @realmaxifuchs4 жыл бұрын

    2:43 This is from my favorite TV-Show Fringe...

  • @JGD444
    @JGD4444 жыл бұрын

    Once again, pure quality. Thanks!

  • @maciekm7953
    @maciekm79534 жыл бұрын

    Thank You for this amazing educational trip 👍

  • @roBLINDhood
    @roBLINDhood4 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely fascinating and exceptionally well presented!!

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    @artiomvas4 жыл бұрын

    Top quality as always!

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    @realname24044 жыл бұрын

    This is an amazing channel

  • @BloodAsp
    @BloodAsp4 жыл бұрын

    Loved the video, thank you for such great information!

  • @LuisMendoza-pp9qi
    @LuisMendoza-pp9qi3 жыл бұрын

    Excellent research and production values!!

  • @lichlach319
    @lichlach3194 жыл бұрын

    Great explanations and insights! Thank You!

  • @irvincoria1887
    @irvincoria18874 жыл бұрын

    This video is dense as fuck. Every minute you introduce a topic that could take an entire week to properly explain to a lay person. And yet, you make it work. Keep up the good work!

  • @tectzas
    @tectzas4 жыл бұрын

    Wow what a good video. Took me on a ride man

  • @BUSeixas11
    @BUSeixas114 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your videos. They are illuminating

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    @ericlawrence90603 жыл бұрын

    Holy crap this is on my permanent SUPER IMPORTANT stuff list. EXCELLENT!

  • @kingofthecatnap5422
    @kingofthecatnap54224 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating, thank you.

  • @theunaphotobomber
    @theunaphotobomber4 жыл бұрын

    "Blacker than the blackest black times infinity." -Nathan Explosion

  • @4n2earth22
    @4n2earth224 жыл бұрын

    Well done! Thank you.

  • @anoirbentanfous
    @anoirbentanfous4 жыл бұрын

    I am addicted to your videos

  • @GuildOfCalamity
    @GuildOfCalamity4 жыл бұрын

    Wow, great video! You must've put a ton of work into it.

  • @gacherumburu9958
    @gacherumburu99584 жыл бұрын

    Love the details! 😍

  • @jaybingham3711
    @jaybingham37114 жыл бұрын

    Black FTW! Great presentation 👍

  • @Intellistan
    @Intellistan4 жыл бұрын

    That was a good one bro.

  • @DBADruid
    @DBADruid4 жыл бұрын

    Best channel ever

  • @wilurbean
    @wilurbean4 жыл бұрын

    You missed the most important thing about India ink! It is water insoluble AFTER it dries. You can use india ink to create lines for water colors for example. But being insoluble in water after it dries is incredible important.

  • @scullygambadoido184
    @scullygambadoido1844 жыл бұрын

    Mind blowing content!

  • @aronnootebos805

    @aronnootebos805

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's only been a minute...do you just really like the color black?

  • @scullygambadoido184

    @scullygambadoido184

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@aronnootebos805 I watch all the videos. They are top notch.

  • @gammalight1312
    @gammalight13124 жыл бұрын

    @New Mind. You're a gem!

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    @ben114099954 жыл бұрын

    I know this channel hasn't been running for very long but I can't understand why it hasn't got more subs.

  • @andersjjensen

    @andersjjensen

    4 жыл бұрын

    Because we forget to mention New Mind to viewers of other channels that are quasi-related? I bet a good handful of Clickspring and Machine Thinking viewers would enjoy New Mind too.

  • @ben11409995

    @ben11409995

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@andersjjensen don't forget This old Tony

  • @KuraIthys

    @KuraIthys

    4 жыл бұрын

    You answered it yourself. It hasn't been around very long. And frankly, 108,000 subscribers is a LOT for a 'young' channel. I see comments like this SO often, and it baffles me how people make remarks like this unless they're just genuinely unfamiliar with how youtube and social media in general works. Then again, hands up if you've ever tried to start a youtube channel? Yeah, I thought not. This might not be such a surprise to you then. Also worth remembering in general (because humans are so incredibly bad at understanding this) that youtube subscriber growth, like many things, is exponential, not linear. We have no intuition for exponential growth... But it has big implications. Quick; If you have 10 subscribers, and grow by 10% a day, how many subscribers will you have in 100 days? I'll start you off by pointing out that 10% of 10 is... 1 So on day 2 you'll have 11 subscribers. But what would you say the answer is? 100 subscribers? 1000? 5000? Would it surprise you to learn that if you start at 10 and grow at 10% a day, then 100 days later you'll have 137,806 subscribers? OK, new question. If this continued at the same rate, what do you think your subscriber count will be in a year? Did you say 12.833 million billion subscribers? No? Well that's the answer, believe it or not. Now, of course it's blatantly obvious that can't happen, so eventually growth slows down. In fact, for most people on youtube, even the ones that were growing that quickly for a little while, it'll slow down well before they reach 1 million. And it's equally obvious you can't have 2 million times the number of subscribers as the entire population of the planet. But even so, if there were no other constraints... That's what would happen after a year of 10% growth a day, starting from just 10 subscribers... Yeah. Exponential growth is weird... But what does this imply in reverse? I means that if you get there early, a channel that will be huge in short order may seem tiny initially. I've personally, more than once, watched channels go from less than 10,000 subscribers to 250,000 in their first year. And many of them hit 2 million by the end of the second year...

  • @morkovija
    @morkovija4 жыл бұрын

    This video got dark towards the end!

  • @zh9664

    @zh9664

    3 жыл бұрын

    i don't normally say this, but underrated comment

  • @morkovija

    @morkovija

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@zh9664 thanks man, it's nice to be appreciated eventually)

  • @MrCarabryne
    @MrCarabryne4 жыл бұрын

    Hi, would you have a source talking more in depth about that "modern association of Black" you mentionned ? I couldn't find nothing about it, even using search by image.. Thanks for your work !

  • @johnniewalker39
    @johnniewalker394 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video!

  • @Murtaskegg
    @Murtaskegg2 жыл бұрын

    You clearly put a lot of effort and research into your videos. And you present it elegantly. I applaud you.

  • @maxk4324
    @maxk43244 жыл бұрын

    2:39 Guy on the left: Hey fellas, what's new? One of the others: Greetings fellow human male.

  • @MikeLeos73

    @MikeLeos73

    4 жыл бұрын

    lol. just a random factoid they are from the tv show fringe. their called observers.

  • @robdogz01
    @robdogz01 Жыл бұрын

    insanely good videos man! I just recommend that you try speaking a little slower! Would make it so much easier for all the second (or 3rd etc) language Speakers tuning in. Thanks again for the amazing videos

  • @TheQuantumFreak
    @TheQuantumFreak4 жыл бұрын

    This is excellent.

  • @SerajEmad
    @SerajEmad4 жыл бұрын

    5:41 please correct wavelength should decrease when the frequency increase...

  • @JarSqautterExperienceOfficial

    @JarSqautterExperienceOfficial

    4 жыл бұрын

    also, it's 1000 /degrees/ Fahrenheit and 1000 /degrees/ Celsius, but it is just 1000 __ Kelvin

  • @communitycollegegenius9684

    @communitycollegegenius9684

    4 жыл бұрын

    The script as well as the picture in the video are correct. Yes, the wavelength decreases as the frequency increases exactly like the graphic depicts. There is NOTHING to correct on this point at this timestamp.

  • @MARILYNANDERSON88

    @MARILYNANDERSON88

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@communitycollegegenius9684 may be the comment is referring to the amplitude, the amplitudes are not changing in the illustration

  • @milomhoek

    @milomhoek

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@communitycollegegenius9684 As you can the numbers below the image are increasing which is wrong. Instead of wavelength it should say frequency.

  • @svenbontinck8875

    @svenbontinck8875

    4 жыл бұрын

    Community College Genius , the picture is wrong. The right expression should be, the wavelenght in metres is 10 to the (minus x). The higher x becomes, the smaller the value in metres becomes. Only in that case the higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelenght becomes. So in every value in the picture @ 5:41 the minus sign is missing. Also the scale of the visible light is wrong. Now it starts at 10 to the power of 9 and almost ends at 10 to the power of 13. This range is way to wide for visible light. The range of visible light is about 380 to 740 nm. That means it should be drawn between the range of 10 to the minus 7 and 10 to the minus 6 or between 100 nm and 1000 nm.. I hope this helps.

  • @casaroli
    @casaroli3 жыл бұрын

    I can’t find a source for the information regarding black holes and radiation with larger frequencies. Where did you find it?

  • @enlapaz
    @enlapaz4 жыл бұрын

    New Mind is amazing channel. You have such creativity that you lend a hand to survive this atrocious times with wars high tech weapons etc. Your work touches this writer to no end to deep foundation of humanity. Just wonderful and joyful to see such beautiful work, Thanks millions we you and I must learn to see the truth!

  • @Nobe_Oddy
    @Nobe_Oddy3 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!

  • @whirledpeas3477

    @whirledpeas3477

    3 жыл бұрын

    Very original 👏

  • @user-uy1eh6yz5y
    @user-uy1eh6yz5y4 жыл бұрын

    nice content, thx!

  • @Reavenk
    @Reavenk4 жыл бұрын

    Your videos aren't monetized, you don't have a donation link or Patreon - what do we do if we want to support you?

  • @vskopylov

    @vskopylov

    4 жыл бұрын

    Share the videos if I had to guess.

  • @zh9664

    @zh9664

    3 жыл бұрын

    hmmmmmmm.... maybe look at the description where he has a link to his patreon? just a guess.... who could really say....

  • @Reavenk

    @Reavenk

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@zh9664 Well, that's now. That Patreon didn't exist a year ago when I wrote the question.

  • @NavajoNinja
    @NavajoNinja4 жыл бұрын

    For some reason, Key & Peeles video came to mind. *"Ok! Black Falcon!"* 😄

  • @morkovija
    @morkovija4 жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah!Been long time!

  • @jeunjetta
    @jeunjetta4 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. Thanks!

  • @SDsc0rch
    @SDsc0rch4 жыл бұрын

    this is fascinating (went from art to science... "that escalated quickly") lol

  • @vgman94

    @vgman94

    4 жыл бұрын

    The best videos are those that express an entire thought process journeying from one field to another to answer the originating question.

  • @ak101farhan

    @ak101farhan

    4 жыл бұрын

    I love this human.

  • @spyrex3988
    @spyrex39884 жыл бұрын

    hey do u write and plan your videos by yourself or you have a team

  • @jaromt.bisgaard1749
    @jaromt.bisgaard17494 жыл бұрын

    Please make more!!! plz

  • @fidelabc123
    @fidelabc1234 жыл бұрын

    Amazing how we were able to capture on camera some of the earliest uses of black pigment on cave walls

  • @movax20h
    @movax20h4 жыл бұрын

    How robust are these coatings to mechanical and chemical wear? Touching by fingers, vibrations, dust, water / moisture, oxygen from the air?

  • @davidasher22
    @davidasher224 жыл бұрын

    Bravo!

  • @kylewallace9341
    @kylewallace93414 жыл бұрын

    9 minutes and 30 seconds it dawned on me I clicked on a video about a color now I'm learning about physics ....😑 well played my friend well played

  • @paulwurst1661
    @paulwurst16614 жыл бұрын

    So much info.

  • @pablocrvzz2985
    @pablocrvzz29854 жыл бұрын

    Black is everything, beginning an end!

  • @petercarioscia9189
    @petercarioscia91893 жыл бұрын

    5:45 in printing, CMYK color is used. It's counterintuitive to the general understanding of color. With Process color, black is all colors mixed together and white is considered the absence of color. Additive color, RGB, black is the total absence of color/light. And white is all colors (wavelengths of visible light) mixed together. This actually works in the practical sense. If you take 3 flashlights and cover one with a Red plastic sheet, one with green and one with blue and overlap the beams, you'll end up with a clear "white" light. CMYK is known as subtractive because it's starts from White (a white sheet of paper) and you subtract wavelengths on your way towards black. (C)yan, (M)agenta and (Y)ellow WILL make black when overlapped, it's just not an especially strong black, hence blac(K) is added at the end for a deep rich black.

  • @CyanBlackflower
    @CyanBlackflower4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this video. I'm always fascinated by the richness and depth of the world in which I live, by the things most of us overlook, designate as unimportant or it may be taken for granted, leading to a similar failure to understand and respect things to which we owe much or which may be quietly offering solutions to some of our most pressing issues and challenges if only someone took the time to observe with the power of silence and stillness, as these are what give meaning and definition to Movement. Tired and outraged by the legions of harmful posers and purveyors of incorrect, false information, rampantly infecting the internet, and breaking down the quality of our understanding of life in general, I am often tempted to do something very destructive in response. I'm far too experienced to ever think such action would result other than to increase that I'd have destroyed. knowing that many people DO care very deeply and are powerfully stringent about the quality and accuracy of what they allow to cross the borders of their mind, as well as what they release into the world at large. This is a thing I can assert with all but indestructible certainty, is of paramount, VITAL import, and very alarmingly another thing 80+% of humanity chooses to regard with little more attention than they give to last weeks weather report.

  • @rdooski
    @rdooski4 жыл бұрын

    If you wan to see something thats looks really "black" at home take a box and paint the entire inside black. Then close it up to where no light can get in and cut a small hole in it on the center of one side. That hole will be really black when you look at it.

  • @dieseltechie7830
    @dieseltechie78304 жыл бұрын

    I was surprised that the vantablack war was included. I thought of it the moment I saw this in my subscription feed. I wonder what the blackest black available that stays stable over 374C which is the supercritical point of water. I guess next we could go for what makes the whitest or most reflective material. I remember reading an article on the idea of more passive building cooling with a material that both reflects heat well but also conducts and emits it.

  • @prathamjain9185
    @prathamjain91853 жыл бұрын

    Can u tell us how many hours are invested by u for us to see this amazing video .... Can u do a Q &A ?.....PLS

  • @kaioocarvalho
    @kaioocarvalho4 жыл бұрын

    I want to build a PC room painted with this MIT black. Only the PC screen would be visible. No distractions, more immersion.

  • @JohnSmith-kc6ov
    @JohnSmith-kc6ov4 жыл бұрын

    That story at the end is hilarious . Some guy got exclusive rights to use vantablack artistically, so another artist just made a new black pigment, that's nearly as black, and doesn't require such advanced application methods (vantablack needs a high temperature, but this is just paint).

  • @tonysolar284
    @tonysolar2844 жыл бұрын

    4:35 Black text on white background has come to an end.. Modern times demand white text on dark gray background.

  • @danisubi6

    @danisubi6

    4 жыл бұрын

    who says that? I feel that reading white on a black background is more tiring

  • @MikinessAnalog

    @MikinessAnalog

    4 жыл бұрын

    Click your icon in the upper right of most youtube pages and switch to "Dark Theme". You will thank me later :)

  • @xenuno

    @xenuno

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MikinessAnalog Morpheon Dark theme with Dark Reader is good combo as well on Chrome. Other useful extensions: Tab Activate, Disable HTML5 Autoplay, Date Today, AdBlock, and Suspicious Site Reporter (to keep Chrome from truncating addresses). I use Pale Moon (clone of FireFox before it adopted a Chrome interface) as well but damn .. have not found an extension for it that works like Disable HTML5 does. On the other side, no Chrome extension for FTP compares to FireFTP. BTW New Mind .. fabulous vid .. they all have been.

  • @vladthe_cat
    @vladthe_cat4 жыл бұрын

    16:07 OMG I WANT THAT TO BE MY SCREENSAVER

  • @silvervortex2441

    @silvervortex2441

    4 жыл бұрын

    Get Wallpaper engine from steam. They have tons of similar animated wallpapers.

  • @possiblyadickhead6653

    @possiblyadickhead6653

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@silvervortex2441 isn't it more for porn

  • @kennedy67951
    @kennedy679513 жыл бұрын

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  • @BariumCobaltNitrog3n

    @BariumCobaltNitrog3n

    Жыл бұрын

    And yet somehow you never learned what capital letters are for.

  • @MrJihadkoplo
    @MrJihadkoplo3 жыл бұрын

    does it come in black

  • @axelk4921
    @axelk49214 жыл бұрын

    what's the difference between Vanta Black and Stuart Semple's Black 2.0 / 3.0? You can buy the black from Stuart! * except Anish Kapoor

  • @ivanquilter919
    @ivanquilter9194 жыл бұрын

    Its nice to see a video about colors

  • @silentbob1236
    @silentbob12364 жыл бұрын

    Man, now I want to rewatch Fringe.

  • @maurice3983
    @maurice39834 жыл бұрын

    wavelength bigger than a black hole.... that are some mighty waves

  • @lennartmiau6504
    @lennartmiau65044 жыл бұрын

    Beautifully said. Also, interesting choice not to include any sort of music - do you have a special reason to do that?

  • @HayzerX
    @HayzerX4 жыл бұрын

    I'd think the aluminum foil is helping to radiate off the heat (since the absorbed light will quickly heat the vertical carbon nanotubes), thus it would only seem as if it performs better than vantablack, but the aluminum plate could just help to transfer energy and enable more light to be absorbed. Also, would be nice if they used this in capturing solar energy. Ofc only when they figure out which ways the heat is distributed.

  • @andrewsutton6640
    @andrewsutton66404 жыл бұрын

    What is the range from the coolest black to the hottest black? If absorbing nearly all light, can it be cooler than less dark colors of similarly constructed "pigments"?

  • @toddk.5873
    @toddk.58734 жыл бұрын

    Some of the few black widow spiders I've seen, had some of the richest black color I've seen in nature. Along with the brilliant color of red on them made me think they were quite beautiful.

  • @markorendas1790

    @markorendas1790

    4 жыл бұрын

    YA... DEATHLY BEAUTIFUL. I KEPT ONE 30 YEARS AGO TO OBSERVE IN A JAR N OVERFED IT N IT UM EXPLODED. I APPRECIATE THEM FROM AFAR NOW.

  • @breilly2750

    @breilly2750

    4 жыл бұрын

    Get yourself a night-vision scope and hunt them at night. Black Widows absorb IR light and show up extremely well in the scope when illuminated with IR light. Just look for the eight-legged black spot. It might work with an IR flashlight and a camera (admit, I have not tried this combination, but based on using camcorders to test IR remotes...)

  • @Itoyokofan
    @Itoyokofan4 жыл бұрын

    6:41 You should've mentioned sharpies, that use violet and magenta dyes.

  • @ivanmarconetti4029
    @ivanmarconetti40292 жыл бұрын

    new mind lo hiciste de nuevo!

  • @michaelsandyhill3773
    @michaelsandyhill37734 жыл бұрын

    No mention of wesleysnipesium?

  • @parkersandahl3949
    @parkersandahl39493 жыл бұрын

    The Darkside of science is awesome

  • @PaymaanJafari
    @PaymaanJafari4 жыл бұрын

    16:50 Those seem to be fresh walnuts, What is oak apple?! walnut's green skin produces a very strong orangish black which hardly cleans.

  • @murtadha96
    @murtadha964 жыл бұрын

    Wow...

  • @timobatana6705
    @timobatana67054 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video brother. Might I suggest some simple background music tho... like some faint chillstep, something jazzy. Great video.

  • @theultimatereductionist7592
    @theultimatereductionist75924 жыл бұрын

    14:57 I dare you to take a step.