Fullerene diamonds

[AntonioLao]

Are fullerene diamonds possible? See these links and make your own personal conclusion. http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/carbon.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene

[mkirkpatrick]

Thanks for the link Antonio,yes I think it would be possible to make Fullerene diamonds,how you would do this though,any ideas?

regards michael.

[G_burnett]

are they not making these for the defend against pulse weaponry? I heard they were any way, diamond canopy stuff .. idk .. very costly kind regards graham

[AntonioLao]

In 1996, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Sir Harold W. Kroto of the United Kingdom, Robert F. Curl Jr. and Richard E. Smalley of the United States of America for their discovery of fullerenes, see http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1996/. Spherical fullerenes are commonly called Buckyballs. By definition, a Buckyball is a crystal, a solid with a regular polyhedral shape. All crystals of the same substance grow by keeping the same angles between faces and different environments allow faces to grow at different rates giving a variety of crystal habits as the external forms of the same internal crystal structure. In three dimensions, the growth of tetrahedral crystal structures follows the form (��+1)(��+2)/6 where �� is a positive integer representing the number of space-time charges. However, the growth of octahedral crystals requires 8 cubic lattices while that of tetrahedral crystals requires only 1 cubic lattice such that the edges of both embedding octahedron and tetrahedron are all equal to the square root of 2 for all unit cubic lattices. Unfortunately, by the same crystallization process, the Buckyballs cannot be able to tessellate in three dimensions, implying that macroscopic structures made from Buckyballs are not usually considered as rigid bodies unless the intermolecular linear velocities satisfy the condition that ��₁×��₁=��₂×��₂= ��₃×��₃=��₄×��₄= ��₅×��₅=��₆×��₆= ��₇×��₇=��₈×��₈….

[labelwench]

A strange notion just crossed my mind from reading your explanation in post #4.

We are seeking a single unifying theory, which seems elusive, unless one considers an umbrella theory that incorporates many as THE theory, a 'One' of the many.

In the same manner by which the cells of the body determine which part of the body or biological process they are to become (as yet unknown, if my information is current), do the elements that comprise the universe have the same mechanism built in?

Which is the most pervasive and malleable component that we are presently able to measure and study? Doubting that such would be the answer, yet it may provide a marker or path.....

With apolgies Antonio. I am a 'bush bunny, or wilderness trekker, not a scientist, yet all is of interest to me....

[labelwench]

Thanks for the link Antonio,yes I think it would be possible to make Fullerene diamonds,how you would do this though,any ideas?

regards michael.

As you answer 'yes' to the possibility offered by Antonio, are you willing to share that upon which you base your premise, mkirkpatrick? Enough resting on your laurels, or beach chair. Roll up your sleeves and get to work......ah, right, no shirt sleeves to roll up.....

[AntonioLao]

I am a 'bush bunny, or wilderness trekker, not a scientist, yet all is of interest to me....

Your common sensibility might yet help me solve cold fusion. By reading the Nobel lecture of Dr Curl, one of the founders of fullerence C60, he indicated that a Buckyball is a hollow molecule that can fit any of the chemical elements of the periodic table. Morever, a nanotube made of fullerenes can be made into fabric materials and made clothings we can wear that in certain sense make us become invisible by the physical property of bending light rays.

[labelwench]

Your common sensibility might yet help me solve cold fusion. By reading the Nobel lecture of Dr Curl, one of the founders of fullerence C60, he indicated that a Buckyball is a hollow molecule that can fit any of the chemical elements of the periodic table. Morever, a nanotube made of fullerenes can be made into fabric materials and made clothings we can wear that in certain sense make us become invisible by the physical property of bending light rays.

Interesting.

The Harry Potter novels and the 'cloak of invisibilty' may not be so far fetched after all.

When in the wilderness, one's eye is first drawn to motion, the reason, then, why many prey species 'freeze' in an attempt to fool the eye of a predator, whose mind will be following the path of it's imagined flight, as the strategy of the predator is to intercept, rather than overtake, as being most energy conservative.

When all is in motion, experience then advises to seek what is not in motion, as the point in need of investigation. If you would disguise yourself as a bush on a windy day, in an attempt to stalk ducks or other prey, they will soon observe that one bush is not behaving as it should in comparison to it's pattern of the experience of bushes, and in relation to the surrounds of the day.

Doubt that will help you with your science, but it may assist you in hunter/gatherer skills.

[AntonioLao]

I need not be a hunter or a gatherer if I can directly extract energy from the vacuum.

[labelwench]

I need not be a hunter or a gatherer if I can directly extract energy from the vacuum.

You can turn this extracted energy directly into sustenance for the human body then? Or do you speak to the fact that such discovery would provide you with a means of exchange for those other things you might desire?