Stone

 I have two, granite, 3 billion year Lewisian Gneiss stones in a box with Helibores. Speckled pink, grey and white. These tough, lovely flowers live for quite a long while. They are similar to the stones, rosy, speckled, still. Some say they are soft, others hard, that they are smooth and others, rough. Nobody can quite agree.

The Gneiss are from Scotland, the Isle of Lewis.  A long time ago that big lump of stone moved over from North America and became part of Scotland and it didn't change to clay like some granite will.

In quantum physics there is more space in a rock than rock. And if you looked deep within rock you would see that it is energy and you would see atoms moving and because they do there is a 600 billion times the current age of the universe to one chance that you might see it disappear to somewhere else. So says Brian Cox, when he put a  3 billion year old diamond gemstone in a box.

Out in the sky, about 10 light years away, in the middle of the Centaurus constellation there is a big, 10 billion trillion trillion carats planet of pure Diamond born out of a White Dwarf.
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