GOLD and DIAMONDS

As I was browsing through the ISLAMIC THINKING Blog, I stumbled upon this:

And then I think, that it is indeed true. Putting aside the message that it actually trying to converse about, my MIND seems to be thinking on other matter; the thing that always bothers me, GOLD.

Everyone knows how precious GOLDS are, and of course DIAMONDS! But I really really think that there is something special about this GOLD thingy, something so special that it is simply different from the other things!

GOLD is so rare, so damn rare, that it is rare even to the UNIVERSE! All of the GOLD on Earth come from dead stars crashing together, created as a result of gamma-ray burst of stars that die and collide with each other. Pretty rare indeed, and so much energy too!

All of the metals found on earth in itself are made from starts, as the earth don't have the energy, or to be precise, the HEAT to create these elements. Yet, GOLD is even more complex to be created!

So what is it with this DIAMOND that actually worth more than GOLD??? why is it so???
First of all, DIAMONDS - being the hardest material once, not so nowadays - are not entirely expensive in its pure form, it is just a compressed carbon anyways. Looking at GEMOLOGY, its worthiness is referred to its colour, clarity, carat weight and cut. So it is simply more of its workmanship, how it sparkles and things like that rather than it in itself.

GOLD, on the other hand, is precious in its pure form, by weight and such. You could shape it to other things then melt it to the ground again, and yet, it still maintains its value. Almost simply indestructible! Well, maybe that's kinda too much... lol...

DIAMONDS can be synthesized nowadays, so I heard, which could again, makes it less worthy than GOLD. DIAMOND is just a molecule, yet GOLD is an atom! And that is a huge difference!!! ALUMINIUM was once more precious than GOLD - we're talking about 19th Century - but look at it nowadays; we throw away aluminium cans every now and then! So why can't it happen to DIAMONDS instead??!

Well I'm not the expert here... Maybe I'm just the GOLD GUY and less of a diamond guy...
We all have our bias...



-AFDHAL MAAROF-