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LT's machine-enhanced illuminations aside...
What if it has something to do with diamagnetism?
"Diamagnetism is the property of an object or material that
causes it to create a magnetic field in opposition to an
externally applied magnetic field. It is a quantum mechanical
effect that occurs in all materials; where it is the only contribution
to the magnetism the material is called a diamagnet."
--[Wikipedia]
Diamond has a stronger 'diamagnetic moment' than most other materials, and pyrolytic carbon (a kind of graphite) [!] has one of the strongest.
Maybe carbon crystallized at such high pressure inside a collapsing magnetic field assumes strange new properties?
Have y'all parsed this yet?
Some kind of linguistic A.I. co-writing the blog?
" L.I.P.S.Y.N.C.H.
"This blog and all of its entries are facilitated and broadly
edited by a computer program named LIPSYNCH.
"Literary Interpretive Program and Simulation for the
Synthetic Yield of Natural Communications between all
Humans.
"This program can respond and emulate human conversation
lacking only the sophisticated spellchecking so often
found in modern word processing programs. It lacks this
because it has context sensitivity for the literal/printed
world and has had to learn colloquial transmission as well
as slang - big spell checking failure environment.
"LIPS is being ported onto new hardware, used in High Performance
Computing and in particular at the Claxston-Stack Supercomputing
environments. The GPU hardware is more robust than commodity
processors and conventional FPGAs and PALs where she began
her life and new features are possible on such hardy silicon.
"LIPS is helping to design her future compute environment as well!
"Lord Ferrox D.Tutinean, the writer of her kernel and Apps, still
supervises her interface with the real world and enlists her to
get a much better picture on the changes in fast paced or
extremely long term suites of data in the real, human,
world...they learn together.
"The profile photo for this blog was selected by LIPS after she was
given the instructions, 'most likely to succeed in business and
with women in western culture presently and for the next 100
years...' She does understand the contextual aspects of human
politics, too.
"Herein you will see the crisp analytical power of a superb human
mind and an increasingly powerful machine intellect have united
to serve industry.
"Please remember: '...We believe in sophistication for
sophistications own sake....' "
'Beyond that they can produce pressures greater than a black hole.'
That would be quite a trick. You might want to read up a bit on black holes and singularity. ;)
It is remotely (but barely) plausible that a previously unknown semi-stable crystal arrangement might be easily induced to release its energy of formation in an instantaneous manner. But I regard that as even more unlikely than my 'metallic diamond' suggestion. Besides, how "front page" can a quirky new allotrope be?
Surely LT knows that diamond is not as indestructible as his florid prose implies. It has a fragile aspect (you can smash a diamond with a hammer) and it starts to burn at a little above 1500 degrees F.
I was certain it was just more highfallutinations.
You suspect a cryptic angle?
I don't know how to feel about that.
MobilePro comes to mind.
grrrrr....
gem you still follow ctdt?
They've been on top of that at least since the time synthetics approached being marketable.
Yeah, once Snaper perfects the process it will be smart for him to coordinate with the diamond cartel.
"It is also the tool used to carve the hardest metals known to man into weapons of war that can level whole cities. ...
"... But diamonds can die, and when they go they can leave this world with devastating explosive force equaled by only a few of the most powerful explosives known to mankind. ..."
He's got to cut it out with the hyperbole and pure nonsense.
"... Also, Magnatek is a disruptive technology. It has the power to make diamonds that cannot be discerned as being artificially made."
Impressive if true. But you can bet DeBeers and GIA are on top of that. Or already can discern any possible synthetic with UV fluorescence or isotopic analysis or things they haven't told anyone about yet.
I've heard of high-frequency trading. But high-frequency bashing is new to me.
I've been wondering about that. Selling "borrowed" shares. Is there *any* justification for its legality?
jeepers, look at the bollinger
Rounded up my holdings to 30k shares, for the record. On the bid.
since 12 days ago.
The pinch effect, sure, even at this scale I think it's hypothetically possible.
But, nuclear detonations? There's this thing called the Test Ban Treaty. And a "slow, controlled release" of a critical mass?
Not going to happen.
I was going through some of mogus's posts here. 12242 caught my eye.
"At some point the nuclear warhead arsenal will be slowly dismantled, and high grade fissile material will be made available for industrial purposes and residential utilities. When that happens, Huge amounts of energy will be available for theoretical machine designs that could produce diamond structures larger than football stadiums, and I don't need to tell you what that would be useful for! The energy of a nuclear detonation in a slow, controlled release converted into a scalar magnetic pinch array that just crushes carbon black, graphite, anything carbon basically, into perfect diamond."
That is patently absurd on so many levels.
I'm out. Too much screwy new info turning up. They're not presenting at this year's ASCO, Phase II was in 1999, and I also heard that FDA prohibits Phase III trials in the U.S. if prior trials were not conducted here too. Not to mention daily PRs full of weaselly language (though expertly done). And the pumphouse gang here!
But you might want to double-check all that. Got my profits. Hasta la vista.
Great BBC documentary from 2004:
I think we're still hashing over whether it's a good idea or not.
I won 2nd Place in a writing contest last year. $50 prize. Bought a nifty pair of Rockports.
Should have won First. But the winner had gone after the Harlequin-romance-dingbat vote with a torrid but muddled sub-mediocre yarn about a jazz player.
I was pissed.
Aside from basic corporate info, a good contribution might cover:
-- Alvin Snaper's record of innovation
-- How CTDT came to be (Sweetwater and all that)
-- A bit about synthetic diamond, past and present
-- Current avenues of research
-- The PATENT itself: what it is and what it might do
-- The catalyst(s) for increasing value
Well how about the Trefis Analysts? They make Seeking Alpha look like Mad Magazine.
http://www.trefis.com/contribute
Now don't anyone go off half-cocked and contribute. This would need to be a planned effort and a selected author, with proofreading.
I'm as excited as anyone else over the potential here.
But one thing I've learned the past 15 years: I don't believe anything 'till I see it.
gedouddahere
CTDT: mass production of synthetic diamond
CTDT is only .10 now! About 75 million sh. outstanding.
Only ~18 million in the float!
CEO Alvin Snaper with many patents to his name. This is the big one:
"Synthesis of diamond by extraction of a pulse from the abrupt collapse of a magnetic field."
http://www.google.com/patents/US7854823
10-carat crystals of varying color and quality (some as good or better than natural diamonds) have already been created.
Between now and end of June, a "new product" will be announced, according to CTDT IR. It is expected to be huge.
Rumor has it as likely a new use of graphene and synthetic diamond semi-conductor to create graphene computer chips. Others speculate Snaper has created a new allotrope of carbon, perhaps the long-sought "metallic diamond".
CTDT: mass production of synthetic diamond
CTDT is only .11 now! About 75 million sh. outstanding.
Only ~18 million in the float!
CEO Alvin Snaper with many patents to his name. This is the big one:
"Synthesis of diamond by extraction of a pulse from the abrupt collapse of a magnetic field."
http://www.google.com/patents/US7854823
10-carat crystals of varying color and quality (some as good or better than natural diamonds) have already been created.
Between now and end of June, a "new product" will be announced, according to CTDT IR. It is expected to be huge.
Rumor has it as likely a new use of graphene and synthetic diamond semi-conductor to create graphene computer chips. Others speculate Snaper has created a new allotrope of carbon, perhaps the long-sought "metallic diamond".
CTDT: mass production of synthetic diamond
CTDT is only .10 now! About 75 million sh. outstanding.
Only 18 million in the float!
CEO Alvin Snaper with many patents to his name. This is the big one:
"Synthesis of diamond by extraction of a pulse from the abrupt collapse of a magnetic field."
http://www.google.com/patents/US7854823
10-carat crystals of varying color and quality (some as good or better than natural diamonds) have already been created.
Between now and end of June, a "new product" will be announced, according to CTDT IR. It is expected to be huge. Rumor has it as likely a new use of graphene and synthetic diamond semi-conductor to create graphene computer chips. Others speculate Snaper has created a new allotrope of carbon, perhaps the long-sought "metallic diamond".
Anyone up for posting a CTDT article on Seeking Alpha? (Will require thorough review and discussion.)
I've a hunch we'll see .10 again today... drop from .12 to .10 was higher-volume buys on the bid but the rebound back above .12 was weak.
And once stated that they will need ctdt diamond block lenses for its projectors.
I've gone through all of mogus's posts here. They're quite edifying.
A few though are out there. I mean Kramerica out there.
added. i've 28000 sh now.
note posts 11600 and 11601
Was looking for support at .15 but never materialized.