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The Race to Turn Gassy Hydrogen into Solid Metal
- ridgeguy 11y agoInteresting, but didn't SA already tell us about a gravity-defying superfluid in 2009? [1] One that doesn't need a gazillion GPa of pressure to work with? [1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/superfluid-can-climb-walls/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/superfluid-can-cli...
- givinguflac 11y agoWe have observed superfluids before, but the goal here is superconductivity.
- venning 11y agoDamn Interesting has a piece on the race to produce the first liquid hydrogen over a century ago: http://www.damninteresting.com/absolute-zero-is-0k/ http://www.damninteresting.com/absolute-zero-is-0k/ From the article: "He did so with the full awareness that he was among the last of a disappearing breed—the “classical physicists” who had the luxury of simply banging on matter until it did interesting Newtonian things."
- Kinnard 11y agoThis is material science porn!