 StoneMtnMinis  | 26 Jan 2017 2:59 p.m. PST |
The import of this is truly staggering: link |
 Parzival | 26 Jan 2017 6:38 p.m. PST |
Agreed. Skip the blog link above and go to The Independent article it cites: link Amazing accomplishment, especially if it will indeed remain stable at room temperature/pressure. |
ScottWashburn  | 27 Jan 2017 5:05 a.m. PST |
Followed the second link and saw this there: "Update: Physicists might have made a mistake in claiming to have turned hydrogen into a metal, experts say" Oops. |
| Bowman | 27 Jan 2017 6:04 a.m. PST |
Ya apparently there are some questions about the research undertaken at Harvard. However, instead of an "oops" moment, this will spurn more money and research into this type of high pressure physics, even if just to corroborate or refute the work of Silvera and Diaz. I think they already know that the hydrogen sublimates as the temperatures and pressures return to normal. |
| Bowman | 27 Jan 2017 6:07 a.m. PST |
I used "spurn" instead of "spur" above. A Freudian error. I'll leave it as both words may be applicable. |
| Winston Smith | 27 Jan 2017 7:18 a.m. PST |
Their peers do not seem convinced. |
| Bowman | 27 Jan 2017 7:51 a.m. PST |
Yes indeed. Hope it doesn't turn into another "cold fusion" debacle. |
| JSchutt | 27 Jan 2017 1:55 p.m. PST |
I am always heartened, should this be true….that such things are accomplished without creating a smoking crater. |
 Jlundberg | 27 Jan 2017 3:15 p.m. PST |
The interior of Jupiter is believed to be liquid metallic Hydrogen. It makes some sense although I am not sure how you make a solid metal out of hydrogen at Earth Temperature and Pressure |
| ScottWashburn | 28 Jan 2017 5:33 a.m. PST |
I'm just impressed that they can generate the pressure to do that. When I was an undergraduate back in the 70s I took an introductory geophysics course and the instructor mentioned that at that time the chemical properties of the core regions of the Earth could only be inferred by seismographic data because we had no way of duplicating the huge pressures that existed at those depths. Apparently now we can. |
| Bowman | 28 Jan 2017 6:15 a.m. PST |
Lol! I was also an undergrad in the 70's. In the field of science, that is a long, long time ago. |
| Martin From Canada | 28 Jan 2017 11:50 a.m. PST |
And yet, as somebody currently working on my PhD, I love old stats books from the late 70s to early 90s, since they don't treat computers like black boxes and explain the math behind the technique, as well as written code. |
| Martin From Canada | 31 Jan 2017 10:41 p.m. PST |
Yes indeed. Hope it doesn't turn into another "cold fusion" debacle.
At least they didn't short-circuit the peer-review process like Pons and Fleischman by spamming press-releases to every journalist with a working pulse. |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 03 Feb 2017 2:54 p.m. PST |
One of the researchers, Isaac Silvera,was interviewed on today's Science Friday: link Several other interesting segments too,including some fascinating discoveries about frog saliva. They use their eyeballs to push food down their throats. Who knew? |
