Field guide No. 1581

A small glass prism sits on a scuffed steel table. Out of it fans a wide beam of solid black.

Light absence

Splits light into one colour: none.

A small glass prism sits on a scuffed steel table. Out of it fans a wide beam of solid black.

Field notePrisms usually fan out a rainbow; this one spreads a clean wedge of dark across the steel.

Specimen
No. 1581
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
a steel bench in a white studio
Nearest existing relative
a desk lamp’s shadow
Filed in Fresh slop as
Objects

Also possible, also breaking physics