GARRthePIRATE t1_iu22kvq wrote on October 27, 2022 at 11:49 PM

Technically, the light you perceive from the shimmer of the diamond has travelled about 90% slower than the speed of light within the prisim refracting and eventually traveling out returning to the speed of light to your eyes. So viewing diamonds is like looking into a slowmotion multiverse or veiwing a larger chunk of time of the past all in real time. Really poetic. Not to mention that it is all carbon which is generaly a dirty thing, now all clean and transparent. It's another hopeful and poetic allegory about the state of the human condition and the hopes that though all of the dirt we might acheive some sort of ascension from the opaque to the transparent.

chivalrousninjaz t1_iu275fc wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:24 AM

That was beautiful

GARRthePIRATE t1_iu27lfu wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:28 AM

Thank you. That was kind.

Bigger_Moist t1_iu2cli2 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:06 AM

So basically. Shiny rock neat.

GARRthePIRATE t1_iu2cs0b wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:07 AM

Shiny rok... must haz

Bigger_Moist t1_iu2d0hc wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:09 AM

Diamonds may be a neat shiny rock, but ammolite is way cooler and actually deserving of its price tag

SolidDoctor t1_iu2le1f wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:13 AM

Atmospheric carbon is a pollutant, but carbon in and of itself isn't dirty... it's a major building block of life. Our bodies are made of 19% carbon. The clear and transparent diamond allotrope of carbon is just a common alignment of carbon atoms.

If you want your fiancee to feel special, buy her a buckyball ring instead.