Comment Re:black != "black body" (Score 3, Informative) 357
So... black stuff doesn't reflect any light. At all. It's just the nearby non-black stuff that reflects light, making the entire object appear just almost black.
Okay, so what you're saying is that you have never used the word black to describe a color before, hmm? Because the grandparent's point was that there are no substances that absorb all light in the real world. Yes, hypothetically black is the absence of light, and yes, his example with the car was inaccurate, but we call things black that reflect loads of color, whether they're matte or shiny.
Therefore, the screen will appear to humans to be black, just like the other black objects in the world.
Okay, so what you're saying is that you have never used the word black to describe a color before, hmm? Because the grandparent's point was that there are no substances that absorb all light in the real world. Yes, hypothetically black is the absence of light, and yes, his example with the car was inaccurate, but we call things black that reflect loads of color, whether they're matte or shiny.
Therefore, the screen will appear to humans to be black, just like the other black objects in the world.
