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Post by Soutpeel on Jan 27, 2017 19:43:43 GMT 7
Hydrogen turned into metal in stunning act of alchemy that could revolutionise technology and spaceflight It’s the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you’re looking at it, you’re looking at something that’s never existed before’ For nearly 100 years, scientists have dreamed of turning the lightest of all the elements, hydrogen, into a metal. Now, in a stunning act of modern-day alchemy, scientists at Harvard University have finally succeeded in creating a tiny amount of what is the rarest, and possibly most valuable, material on the planet, they reported in the journal www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hydrogen-metal-revolution-technology-space-rockets-superconductor-harvard-university-a7548221.html |
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Post by rubl on Jan 28, 2017 12:28:33 GMT 7
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Post by rubl on Jan 28, 2017 16:53:08 GMT 7
The official article is a bit more circumspect on the issues. Below the summary of the article. "Metallic hydrogen created in diamond vise Robert F. Service Science 27 Jan 2017: Vol. 355, Issue 6323, pp. 332-333 DOI: 10.1126/science.355.6323.332 Summary In 1935 a pair of physicists predicted that if the pressure of hydrogen were raised to about 25 times that of atmospheric pressure, it would turn into a solid metal. Experimentalists ever since have tried and failed to spot this transition, even after raising the pressure of hydrogen to millions of times atmospheric pressure. Now, the transition to solid metallic hydrogen may have been reached. Physicists in the United States say that by crushing a tiny amount of hydrogen between the tips of two flat-tipped diamonds at cryogenic temperatures they've raised the pressure to nearly 5 million times atmospheric pressure, causing the hydrogen to reflect light like a metal. They still don't have evidence the pressurized hydrogen is a solid. But even the claim that it is metallic is highly controversial. Other high-pressure physicists question some of the procedures used in the new study, and say they need more proof before they'll concede that the 80-year quest is over." science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6323/332?utm_campaign=wnews_sci_2017-01-26&et_rid=35398620&et_cid=1127267 |
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Post by joko on Jan 28, 2017 22:19:17 GMT 7
And how about them "time crystals" they came up with recently? Heady days.
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Post by mistermember on Jan 29, 2017 1:12:25 GMT 7
And how about them "time crystals"? I never touch that shit. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2017 8:09:36 GMT 7
And how about them "time crystals"? I never touch that shit. I am sure some of the shit I "researched" and conducted "experiments" with back in the seventies were time crystals !  |
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