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

Reply to comment by Bigger_Moist in It's weird that diamonds are so valuable. They're just shiny objects. by SenorDipstick

Shiny rok... must haz

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

Reply to comment by chivalrousninjaz in It's weird that diamonds are so valuable. They're just shiny objects. by SenorDipstick

Thank you. That was kind.

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

Reply to It's weird that diamonds are so valuable. They're just shiny objects. by SenorDipstick

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.