{"id":15102,"date":"2014-07-15T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=15102"},"modified":"2014-07-15T03:00:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T08:00:35","slug":"stare-into-the-puck-and-the-puck-stares-into-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15102","title":{"rendered":"Stare into the Puck, and the Puck Stares into You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/blackest-is-the-new-black-scientists-have-developed-a-material-so-dark-that-you-cant-see-it-9602504.html\">Blackest is the new black: Scientists have developed a material so dark that you can&#8217;t see it&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A British company has produced a &#8220;strange, alien&#8221; material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light, setting a new world record. To stare at the &#8220;super black&#8221; coating made of carbon nanotubes \u2013 each 10,000 times thinner than a human hair \u2013 is an odd experience. It is so dark that the human eye cannot understand what it is seeing. Shapes and contours are lost, leaving nothing but an apparent abyss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackest is the new black: Scientists have developed a material so dark that you can&#8217;t see it&#8230; A British company has produced a &#8220;strange, alien&#8221; material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light, setting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15102\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}