Reply to post: Unexpected Reaction?

One does not simply shove elephants on a ballet shoe point and call it an acceptable measure of pressure

Mark 85

Unexpected Reaction?

"The team applied pressure equal to 640 African elephants on the tip of a ballet shoe, doing so in a way that caused an unexpected reaction among the carbon atoms in the device."

They got diamonds... were they expecting something different like turning coal into gold or some other alchemy?

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