Surely realtime life is just a series of stills!
Yep, time is just an infinite number of individual moments... man...
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is black really black?
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http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0913/
You might have to scroll to find the black review.
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But it is. The smallest chunk of time that cannot be subdivided (Planck Time) is one second by 10 to the -43.
I admit that's small (there have "only" been 4.3x10 to the power 17 seconds since the big bang) but it's real.
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Was being pedantic, if you were to break down time so that you are not measuring 'frames per second', but more like milliseconds (or smaller), then movement could be broken down to a serious of, albeit miniscule, stills.
In the same way that a circle or arc is made up of many tiny straight lines!
Edit: well put Big John more coherent than my wild ramblings but is what I was getting at.
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Was being pedantic, if you were to break down time so that you are not measuring 'frames per second', but more like milliseconds (or smaller), then movement could be broken down to a serious of, albeit miniscule, stills.
Well perhaps to that degree of pedantry.
But the human eye can fill in the blanks at something like 2 or 3 images per second and make them appear to be moving. Persistence of memory I believe that one is called. I was just using it as an example of how the mind can work things out (in a similar way that a projector can't project black but the mind can tell you it is seeing it).
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Furthermore, the ability to measure time to a lesser degree doesn't mean that life is a series of 'stills' - it just means that our present ability to measure it has been exhausted.
Surely?
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Is that how the Turner add works?
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IIRC scientists have recently developed carbon nano tubes which are many times more black than anything previously known. This will lead to more efficient solar panels as more energy will be absorbed rather than reflected. So we have black but not absolute black.
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MrBen I like your idea of cutting open a black football and watching a rainbow fall out!
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Purple Acki, terrorizer of trim gentlemen in the Northwest of England, (and was so notorious that most people thought he was an urban myth) is of Nigerian decent, and his nickname comes from him being so dark-skinned he looks purple.
So is the answer 'Purple'?
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I assed my mom but she sed2 stop been a retard
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None of you have been to Thetford Forest then, where black is either red or blue, depending where you come from.
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There's Black & there's Super Black! Blacker than Black! Eh?
My mate tried to convince me that Black was made from White, this argument went on for hours, until he then changed his statement to "Black paint is made from White.".. Not being in the Painting industry I didn't have a clue, but I did do Physics so I know Black is not made from White, might be different for paints.
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I like the level of technical expertise on display here, but some great philosophers have applied their minds to this question too.
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None of you have been to Thetford Forest then, where black is either red or blue, depending where you come from.
Live in Thetford, the answer was there in front of me all along.
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As a sort of aside, when I was doing a college day-release there was a student who did architectural type drawings using only black ink, but she used loads of different felttips and fountain pens, then she'd use a water wash over the top, so the ink would bleed out lots of different shades of blue, green, red, purple etc. Very effective, but required lots of research to work out what make of pen ran what colour. So there ya go, black is all sorts of colours.
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so, after 51 posts by 32 stw experts i conclude that black is not black but is in fact a grey area
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Yep. It's down there in black and white...
...oh, is that my coat? Thank you, most kind.
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Say it loud!
I'm many shades of very dark grey with an inner rainbow and I'm proud!
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So if black is black because it soaks up all the colours, is that why shite Ka bumpers go grey? Are they full?
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^^^LOL
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Black is the absence of reflected light
Right, so what's gloss black? Shiny, cos it reflects, but it still looks black. How's that work?
(I could give an answer but it'd spoil the imact of the question, and I want to see if any of you lot can figure it out)
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Because the surface is reflecting the light entirely.
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Then it'd be white...
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My ability to describe the phenomenon escapes me but your argument would mean that a mirror would be white too.
I know in my head what is happening but cannot explain it so please do so for me (us).
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Damn, someone beat me with the spinal tap quote.
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With reference to the gloss black question...............I reckon it might be that the object is black because it aborbs all natural daylight (from the sun....just in case) which is made up of the colours in the spectrum.
The gloss effect comes from having a material finish that reflects un-natural ambient light from bulbs etc which do not have a short enough wavelength (i.e high enough energy) to penetrate the objects surface and so reflect back.
I don't really think that those at Cern need worry about the STW colony taking there jobs any time soon!
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I like Pink.
It's better than Black anyday.
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Personally I prefer the shade that's a sort of flourescent purpleish green.
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