Is is fair?

Did you know that there’s a scientific test to find out how hard things are?

Scientific.

It involves hitting the thing you want to test, with something else.

i.e. Hit me with anything and you’ll discover I’m not.

Hard.

You could knock me down with a feather.

Clever.

Trevor was my best friend when I was eleven years old.

He probably had a higher ranking on the Vickers Test than I.

The Vickers test is not the only scientific way to test hardness, the Brinell test is one of several others.

I score badly on all of them.

But… I find the results of the Vickers test illuminating – apparently a diamond is the Earth’s hardest naturally occurring material, it comes in at 70 to 150 gigapascals on the test.

In comparison I come in below zero.

They found this out by using the Vickers hitting tool.

Which is, basically, a diamond.

Is that fair?

Hit me with me, and I’d score something.

Surely?