After about half an hour of circling the construction material and edging closer, I finally gathered my courage and approached it. There was no evidence of scorching or charring of the surrounding blacktop, and the construction material itself did not appear to have experienced any melting at all! Encouraged by this finding, I measured the temperature of the building material, using the same method as I had used before the rapid relocation, and found no measurable increase in its temperature. One of the cats (Jade) sniffed at the rock at this point and, again, she found nothing unusual about its temperature.
I repeated the experiment 7 times, each time approaching the relocated construction material more rapidly until, by the final experiment, I measured the temperature of the construction material after only 2 minutes of observation. In none of the tests did I note any scorching, charring, signs of melting, or measurable temperature increase.
I do not wish to cast aspersions about my assistants (Rao and Jade), but, frankly, I feel they contributed very little to the success of the experiment and I really must insist that, when the test log is published, my name should be listed first.
Of course, these are only preliminary findings and more testing needs to be done. Still, I think these results are very encouraging and I am forced to say that some of the earlier hysteria about the requirement for protracted home construction times (10 seconds or even longer) is misplaced.
I acknowledge that I have not attempted to simulate the waste heat created by the actual assembly of the materials, and these may still present a limit to how quickly a house could be built.
It has occurred to me that actual NT building materials may behave somewhat differently from the materials I selected for this series of tests. Accordingly, if anyone would provide me with a few large (at least 2 carat) diamonds, I would be happy to repeat this test and forward the results.