Darkest thing on Earth helps see into space

原创编译 2018-09-27

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"It is so black, it seems like a mistake"
“它太黑了，似乎超出了常理。”

All these things might look black, and we might even call them black, but actually they are not true black
这些东西看上去都是黑的，我们甚至称之为黑色，但是事实上，它们并不是真正意义上的黑色。

But this, this is closer to true black than anything in the planet, and it’s revolutionize anything from space exploration to architecture.
但是，这个要比地球上所有东西都更加接近真正的黑色。它彻底改变了从太空探索到建筑学的一切事物。

"It is hard to understand that blackest black in the world, it means that you hear it, it makes senses, and you think you can conceptualize it, but seeing it is something that very very different. "
想要理解“世界上最黑的黑色”并不容易，这意味着，尽管当你听到它时，你认为你可以理解这个概念，但是当你亲眼看到它时，你会发现眼前和你想的大不相同。

"It is so black that it change the dimensionality of objects. It’s not a color, it’s the absence of the color, so it is what happened when you have no light reflected back to the viewer. You see nothing, so your brain print it as black ."
“它实在是太黑了，以至于改变了物体原有的维度，但这样的黑色并不是一种颜色，而是颜色的缺失。当你看到这种黑色时，意味着你的视野中没有光的反射，因此大脑只能将其输出为黑色。”

It looks like a paint ,but actually it makes up of microscopic carbon nanotubes,which are grown in the lab just outside of London.
它看起来像油漆，但实际上它是由微碳纳米管组成的，这种材料是在伦敦郊外的一间实验室里被研究出来的

It is made from individual carbon nanotubes, and those carbon nanotubes are like very very long blades of grass.
这些物品是由单个微碳纳米管组成的，这些纳米管就像非常长的草叶

And imagine if you are him who walking through the grass of Eiffel Tower, how little light would get down to you？
想象一下你置身在这些“草叶”造成的埃菲尔铁塔中，你将会看到多么微弱的光啊

It is kind of like that but on the very very tiny scale.
实际情况就像你想象的那样，只不过，规模要小的多

"It’s pretty much like a black hole ".
“它看起来就像一个黑洞”

That’s an interesting comparison,because this material is helping scientists peer deeper into the heavens than ever before.
这些材料为科学家们提供了探索宇宙前所未有的机会，我们来做个有趣的比喻

Acting a bit like lens hood of cameras, vantablack basically prevents lens flares in powerful telescope.
梵塔黑（上文提到的黑色）就像照相机的镜头遮光罩，能够基本防止高倍望远镜在使用过程中出现耀斑。

Reducing the stray light allows us to see some of the faintest and most distance objects in the universe.
杂散光的降低可以让我们看到宇宙中一些最微弱和最遥远的物体。

So the closer we get to achieving absolute black, the more we are able to explore the blackness above
因此我们越接近绝对黑色，就越能探索到黑度的上限。

But space isn’t the only frontier, artists, designers and musicians want to get their hands on vantablack.
但是梵塔黑所带来的影响绝不仅限于太空，还涉及到艺术，设计，音乐以及其他诸多领域。

Asif Khan is covering a building in vantablack for the 2018 Olympics
“when people look at this building , they will see a sort of schism in space, it will be like that you are looking into the night sky , and in fact we create some stars filled within the blackness, so it will be like a Milky Way, but you will see it in a broad daylight "
阿西夫.汗为庆祝2018年冬季奥运会，用梵塔黑覆盖了一座建筑。
他说：“当人们看到这个建筑时，他们能看到宇宙的分裂，仿佛感到自己在注视夜空，不同的是，你是在白天看到“夜空”的。我们还在这个建筑上点缀了一些星星，让它看起来就像银河一般。”

The ability of vantablack is to really make us think more about the light we have access to, it got the ability to make us realize what a precious resource it is.
梵塔黑的特性促使我们更多的思考光的重要性，同时也让我们意识到这是多么宝贵的资源。

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