At 12:19 pm 28/12/2005 -0800, Jones wrote: <snip>
>BTW - although we know that diamond, which is transparent, is well >described simply as a particular structural phase of carbon, no >one has yet ruled out the possibility that some of the strange >physical properties of diamond (relative to graphite) are not >related to a transitory BEC state - due to the enormous >virtual-self-pressure of the unusual regular and coherent bonding. > >Frank Grimer should find that kind of thing provocative as well. > >Jones Careful Jones - we don't want a Big-ender, Little-ender dispute. As you know I work from downwards from Alpha and Omega in contrast to Little-enders who work upward from the Aztec serpent-god Quetzalcoatl. ;-) Frank
