- Hey smart people, Joe here.
This is a video about scientists centuries long quest to understand one of the most mysterious materials in the universe, diamonds.
A mineral so strong it can only be scratched by another diamond.
It's the story of how scientists uncovered the secrets inside these crystals and how they learned to replicate the extreme temperatures and pressures once only found deep inside our planet to achieve what was once unthinkable, making diamonds in the lab.
Today we've been given exclusive access to a lab that manufactures diamonds to show you what almost no one gets to see, how this lab makes some of the most valuable and most resilient materials known in the universe out of dead people.
(bright music) Humans have been using diamonds since at least 2500 BCE when the ancient Chinese use them to polish stone tools.
it's likely our obsession with these strange crystals goes back to the first time we pulled one out of the dirt.
- I mean, imagine digging through the earth and you find this clear, shiny material in the ground.
I mean, it never rusts, it never goes away.
It basically lasts forever, which is the marketing campaign of natural diamonds is, diamonds are forever, right?
