The question arises whether darkness becomes visible. So what is the color (or perhaps lack thereof) that de Wilde was seeking?Īccording to the Huffington Post article, he sought the Holy Grail of color: “a hue absent of all and any light.” De Wilde’s work with carbon nanotubes or CNT’s has produced a color that he claims is “ blacker than black.” While the nanotubes are reportedly 10,000 times smaller than a piece of human hair, they can absorb 99 percent of the light that hits them which makes the color produced darker than what is normally thought of as black.īlacker-than-black is necessarily something which exceeds the luminous phenomenon. It is often described as the opposite of white. It is experienced when no visible light reaches the eye because it absorbs all light. In the simplest of explanations, black is the absence of color. To be able to describe what could possibly be darker (blacker) than black, we must first define black itself. Well, that was the hue most sought after by Brussels artist Frederik de Wilde. Can you imagine a color darker than black? Can you imagine a color blacker than black?
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