[ATM] How dark is dark?

[Jerry]

The light that reflects off of the gloss never hits the black underneath.
Where the gloss reflects away from the eye or focal plane the black looks
blacker because less light hit it. The black underneath didn't absorb the
light that never got there. It is still wild and you probably don't know
where it is going to end up.

If you look at a location on the gloss that is directing its reflection to
you eye it hides the black underneath and you don't see the black.
 
Count me in the skeptics. I think the gloss is going to leave more wild
light on the loose. 

If gloss where really better wouldn't we just move on to to applying a
mirror surface, enhanced of course, and control the reflection to direct all
light not properly focused by the objective away from the focal plane?
Sounds easy.

I'll bet you wouldn't bump into that telescope in the dark. Unless you just
didn't realize you were so close to it.

Jerry