Chapter 66 Chapter 56 Disturbance Theory

Sender: Professor Paul Craigie Mail to: Editor-in-Chief of "Nature" Information Bank (Public Garden) Theme: Mount Zeus and the Jupiter Diamond It is now very clear that an important structure on Europa, Mount Zeus, originated from part of Jupiter.The core of the giant air mass may be composed of diamonds. This theory was first proposed by Dr. Maivin Ruth at the Lawrence Livemore National Laboratory of the University of California. The title of this old paper is: "On Uranus and Ice in Uranus—diamonds in the sky? ("Nature", Vol. 292, No. 5822, pp. 435-436, published on July 30, 1981).Surprisingly Ruth did not apply his hypothesis to Jupiter.

The sinking of Mount Zeus produced so many truly deplorable scenes and yet all of them are so absurd for the following reasons: I will not talk about the details here, because these will be published in future submissions. I estimate that the original mass of diamonds in the core of Jupiter is at least 10 to 28 cubic grams, which is 10 billion times the mass of Mount Zeus. times. Most of this material was destroyed during the explosion of Jupiter or the formation of the magic star, and apparently only Mount Zeus is the only remaining part.Although many fragments fell back to the magic star, a considerable proportion of diamonds entered Jupiter's orbit and must still be there now.The original perturbation theory shows that it will periodically return to the origin. Of course, we can't make the most accurate calculations, but I estimate that at least a million times the mass of Mount Zeus is still in orbit near the magic star.So the loss of a small shard (inappropriately dropped on Europa for some reason) is not a big deal.I suggest setting up a dedicated space radar system as soon as possible to find this substance.

Although a large number of extremely thin diamond films were produced in 1987, it has not been possible to produce large diamonds.Megaton diamonds can completely transform many industries and give rise to entirely new ones, especially as Shaq did a hundred years ago (see "Science", vol. 151, pp. 682-683 , published in 1966), diamonds are the only building material that can be used to create so-called space elevators, which can transport materials back and forth between the earth and space at almost no cost.These diamond mountains orbiting Jupiter's satellites may be able to open up the entire solar system; in comparison, how stupid is the four covalent crystallization of carbon used in ancient times!

For the sake of completeness, I would like to mention one other possible location of a large number of diamonds, but unfortunately, this place is more difficult than reaching the core of a giant planet... It was once thought that the crust of neutron stars may be composed of a large number of diamonds.The closest known neutron star is fifteen light-years away, and its surface gravitational field is 70 billion times that of Earth, so we can hardly expect it to be a reasonable source of diamonds. But, who ever thought that one day we would be able to reach the core of Jupiter?