{"id":2242,"date":"2014-08-20T13:24:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T13:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.timbercompositedoors.com\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2014-08-20T13:24:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T13:24:52","slug":"black-is-black-or-is-it-about-to-become-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timbercompositedoors.com\/blog\/black-is-black-or-is-it-about-to-become-something-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Black is black \u2013 or is it about to become something else"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Solidor-Ludlow-Composite-Door\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The little black number, as black as the night, are just two of a number of familiar phrases that are part of everyday language, but what is black a dictionary description would be something like<\/p>\n

black \u2013\u201cthe colour of\u00a0coal\/ ebony or outer space – \u00a0the darkest colour, the result of the absence of or complete absorption of light.\u201d<\/p>\n

That last phrase \u201cthe absence of the complete absorption of light\u201d now seems to have a new meaning a British company Surrey Nano Systems has now developed a new Black carbon nanotube material, named Vantablack, has been grown on sheets of aluminium foil and when the sheets are crumpled into miniature hills and valleys, this landscape disappears on areas covered by the material<\/p>\n

The carbon nanotubes are each 10,000 times thinner than a human hair and the material made from them is so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light, 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. For more information on this remarkable product see – https:\/\/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<\/a> and https:\/\/www.techly.com.au\/2014\/07\/15\/blackest-material-entire-world-weird-look\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The description given be Douglas Adams in\u00a0his book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe seems a very apt description of this colour with words as spoken by the hero \u201cFord Prefect\u201d<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201c\u201cIt\u2019s so\u2026 black!\u201d said Ford Prefect. \u201cYou can hardly make out its shape\u2026 light just seems to fall into it!\u201dThe blackness of it was so extreme that it was almost impossible to tell how close you were standing to it.\u201cYour eyes just slide off it\u2026\u201d said Ford in wonder.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

We are all used to looking at lines, shape and shadow to define the object we are viewing therefore the concept of a colour so dark that it removes definable form from anything we look at conjures some interesting concepts:<\/p>\n

-the little black number instead of being an elegant dress would become a black blob with body parts floating around it.<\/p>\n

-black objects would become invisible in darkness \u2013 has to be a military use here \u2013 but what we normal people do on dark moonless nights we would trip over or bump into any object coated in this material \u2013 hope someone is doing a \u201cRisk Assessment\u201d on future product uses.<\/p>\n

-black doors \u2013 the bit that interests us here at Timber composite doors would simply become \u2013 nothing \u2013 or should that be nothing but a shapeless void \u2013 every black door would suddenly become featureless.<\/p>\n

Technology moves very quickly but hopefully the use of this material in everyday products such as door coatings is a long way off and we at Timber Composite Doors will continue to offer our range of ten standard and twenty nine \u201cItalia\u201d doors in seventeen colours \u2013 including Black composite doors<\/a> \u2013 the regular kind that allows us to define the shape style and quality of these superb doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The little black number, as black as the night, are just two of a number of familiar phrases that are part of everyday language, but what is black a dictionary description would be something like black \u2013\u201cthe colour of\u00a0coal\/ ebony or outer space – \u00a0the darkest colour, the result of the absence of or complete …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"loftocean_post_primary_category":0,"loftocean_post_format_gallery":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_ids":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_urls":"","loftocean_post_format_video_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_video_url":"","loftocean_post_format_video_type":"","loftocean_post_format_video":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_type":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_url":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_audio":"","loftocean-featured-post":"","loftocean-like-count":1,"loftocean-view-count":1220,"tinysalt_single_post_intro_label":"","tinysalt_single_post_intro_description":"","tinysalt_hide_post_featured_image":"","tinysalt_post_featured_media_position":"","tinysalt_single_site_header_source":"","tinysalt_single_custom_site_header":"0","tinysalt_single_custom_sticky_site_header":"0","tinysalt_single_custom_sticky_site_header_style":"sticky-scroll-up","tinysalt_single_site_footer_source":"","tinysalt_single_custom_site_footer":"0","footnotes":""},"categories":[851],"tags":[926,992],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-news","tag-black-composite-doors","tag-solidor-black-composite-doors"],"aioseo_notices":[],"modified_by":"Ian Richardson","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timbercompositedoors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timbercompositedoors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timbercompositedoors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timbercompositedoors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timbercompositedoors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.timbercompositedoors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timbercompositedoors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timbercompositedoors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timbercompositedoors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}