Talk:Mr. Shine

The annotation "This may be a parody of Ayn Rand's "Who is John Galt?" in Atlas Shrugged." might fit better into a separate annotations page.

• Might this be a parody of Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", or did Pink Floyd also get this from Ayn Rand? Kellyterryjones 23:50, 13 October 2007 (CEST)

Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" was about and dedicated to the group's founding member, Syd Barrett, who might be said to have fallen head-first off the swings in the recreational playground of the late 1960's. In short, Barrett went on a drug trip but not all of him came back. However, the other Floyd band members are believed to have cut him in for a share of the profits, regardless of the fact he didn't play or sing with them very much after 1969, to ensure he got the best care going. This persisted till his death in 2006.--AgProv 13:46, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Diamond On Silicon for real

Mr Shine is described as a cool head because the diamond reflects heat. Terry's close to an even better truth.

In semiconductor manufacturing, there are other, well-known reasons for incorporating diamond. It manages to be both an excellent electric insulator[1] and a good conductor of excess heat. A diamond-backed silicon wafer, or even a "troll brain" made up of layers of semiconducting silicon and insulative diamond, would have less trouble with hot spots than silicon alone.

Thermal Properties of Diamond Passivation research paper
Silicon-On-Diamond heat transfer diagram
[1]There are also blue diamonds which are semiconductors themselves.
JellyfishGreen

And please correct me if my limited grasp of inorganic chemistry and electronics are called into question here. Germanium is a chemical element[1] loosely related to diamond (carbon} and has a close relationship to it in the periodic table? This is an element often found alongside diamond, and which has a significance in the manufacture of transistors and other electronic components. I wonder if this is another element of importance in troll inorganic biochemistry and whether Dimond King would have relatively more of it in his brain? (Come to think of it, if Dimond Kings exist, there must surely be a Diamond Queen of the trolls, at least potentially?)--AgProv 00:02, 14 October 2007 (CEST)

Temperature and Reflectivity?

I had always assumed that he controlled his temperature by changing reflectivity, not as well as changing reflectivity. --Confusion (talk) 05:15, 19 December 2013 (GMT)