Discovered: 10 Billion Trillion Trillion Carat Diamond...Seriously

**Alex3000gt** · 09-13-2010, 10:46 PM

Repost! I posted this on the other site about a year ago.

**onebadmollafolla** · 09-13-2010, 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by Alex3000gt

Repost! I posted this on the other site about a year ago.

Omit. This is a new site.

**NickS VR4** · 09-14-2010, 09:27 AM

So what happened to the theory of stars exploding and becoming black holes when they die? That article says our sun will become one after it burns out. Damn all these "facts" I learned in science class.

**deadlylegacy** · 09-14-2010, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by NickS VR4

So what happened to the theory of stars exploding and becoming black holes when they die? That article says our sun will become one after it burns out. Damn all these "facts" I learned in science class.

Depends on the strength of the sun really. If it burns out quickly it dwindles to a white dwarf and burns out into a compact mass, if it burns slowly it has alot of mass still which collapses into a black hole. Ours burns slowly.

Or something along those lines. But in regards to the diamond, it would cause massive inflation in the diamond market and would lose a ton of value, haha.

**blindmist** · 09-14-2010, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by colt45 gto

wow! thats impressive but! how do they know?

Sounds like you need a good dose of cosmos. Got Netflix? Carl explains this better than I can.

Long story short. They take the light that we see from it, split it into a spectrum. There are certain colors or shades that are not seen and they leave a black line in the spectrum. Every element has its own unique light ID. Therefore, we are able to determine the elemental makeup. We see a lot of carbon, and its a fully collapsed white dwarf, it is inevitable that it is a diamond.

You can actually do this light test at home if you have a way to put a prism in the focal point just in front of the eye piece.