Posted on 02/26/2017 8:33:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
Harvard scientists triumphantly announced that they'd created metallic hydrogen last month, but now it's suddenly gone.
Scientists hailed it as the “holy grail” of high pressure physics when they finally produced it in the lab: metallic hydrogen, a century after it was first theorized to exist. And now that sample, which had been held in a hyper refrigerated laboratory, has vanished into thin air, and scientists can’t figure out why.
Reports indicate that the metallic hydrogen had been kept between a vice of two diamonds at huge pressures while being stored at 80 Kelvin, but something happened in the lab and the diamonds broke. Now, the metallic hydrogen, which was 10 micrometers in diameter, has disappeared. It’s possible that it’s simply right under their noses, but there’s also a possibility that it has turned back into a gas.
(Excerpt) Read more at morningticker.com ...
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OTOH, I thought physicists considered everything a metal, save for hydrogen and helium?
I noticed several composition errors in the article. You would think that in an important scientific article, they would be more careful.
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LOL, Hahhvaaad Scientists write like MIT Scientist gnurds....
You’ve restored my faith in science.
Good thing that physicists aren’t chemists.
Lol, I had the same thought.
The same thing happens to me! I figure there must be a Bermuda Triangle fluttering around my freezer.
“Hey, the Big Fridge is blinky again. I’m gonna reset it now, okay? Anyone mind? Anyone…? M’kay. Resetting it now. Nothing should change. Things can’t unfreeze that fast…”
Looks like they discovered the real “unobtainium.”
Who is John Galt?
Heisenberg’s cat ate it.
“It’s possible that it’s simply right under their noses, but there’s also a possibility that it has turned back into a gas”... or they are full of shit and it never existed
“It’s possible that it’s simply right under their noses, but there’s also a possibility that it has turned back into a gas”... or they are full of shit and it never existed
The janitor did it!
>Harvard
Like everything else in that leftist dunghole, it was taxed out of existence.
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