I' ve been having a long running debate with my wife about "real" vs. man-made diamonds. My position is that if they are chemically identical, then they are the same material, and it should make no difference which one is used to make jewery.

I can talk until I am blue in the face because she knows the difference. The "real" diamonds are mined, and the "fake" diamonds are manufactored!

Got to hand it to De Beers and others running the World's diamond industry; Joseph Goebbels would be proud!