Metallic Hydrogen Created

[DC Tom]

Interesting. Your bike compressor broke? Dry ice melted... So harsh! Such a little chubby you got? :-P :-P

 

Changing/grinding gears a little here. You think that Harvard (was it Harvard?) lab still has it under pressure/temp? 495 whatever/8 degrees away from ab zero. ??

 

Either that, or they don't have it anymore.

[ExiledInIllinois]

 

Either that, or they don't have it anymore.

For the record, I am skeptical too. Still, very fascinating to see what becomes of this.

 

Maybe I missed it, but what kind of device creates pressure like that? How do they achieve it? I get the "squeezed between two coated/polished diamond thing"... But how?

Edited January 30, 2017 by ExiledInIllinois

[DC Tom]

For the record, I am skeptical too. Still, very fascinating to see what becomes of this.

 

Maybe I missed it, but what kind of device creates pressure like that? How do they achieve it? I get the "squeezed between two coated/polished diamond thing"... But how?

 

It's probably more like six diamonds, not just two, since you have to confine it in three dimensions.

 

And the pressure isn't as difficult to generate as you'd think. It's certainly not easy, but it's millions of pounds per square inch, but over a very small fraction of a square inch, so the overall force required is only a couple of a hundred pounds. The hard part is applying that force so precisely to get that pressure...but that's just an engineering problem.

 

Another thing I just discovered (that I had suspected): the experimenters don't know if they created solid or liquid metallic hydrogen. They didn't measure any basic property of the material they made. They really don't know what they created beyond "Oooh, shiny!"

[OCinBuffalo]

 

It's probably more like six diamonds, not just two, since you have to confine it in three dimensions.

 

And the pressure isn't as difficult to generate as you'd think. It's certainly not easy, but it's millions of pounds per square inch, but over a very small fraction of a square inch, so the overall force required is only a couple of a hundred pounds. The hard part is applying that force so precisely to get that pressure...but that's just an engineering problem.

 

Another thing I just discovered (that I had suspected): the experimenters don't know if they created solid or liquid metallic hydrogen. They didn't measure any basic property of the material they made. They really don't know what they created beyond "Oooh, shiny!"

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[ExiledInIllinois]

LMAO!

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

 

It's probably more like six diamonds, not just two, since you have to confine it in three dimensions.

 

And the pressure isn't as difficult to generate as you'd think. It's certainly not easy, but it's millions of pounds per square inch, but over a very small fraction of a square inch, so the overall force required is only a couple of a hundred pounds. The hard part is applying that force so precisely to get that pressure...but that's just an engineering problem.

 

Another thing I just discovered (that I had suspected): the experimenters don't know if they created solid or liquid metallic hydrogen. They didn't measure any basic property of the material they made. They really don't know what they created beyond "Oooh, shiny!"

 

nerd

[DC Tom]

 

nerd

Dullard.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

Dullard.

 

Isn't there some sort of unidentified sub-atomic particle you could be finding or something?