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I saw it! A tiny, shiny speck under the microscope, and the thrill of seeing a form of matter which, it can be argued, has never existed anywhere in the univers
by InDemoVeritas 10y ago
I saw it!
A tiny, shiny speck under the microscope, and the thrill of seeing a form of matter which, it can be argued, has never existed anywhere in the universe. Ever.
- mmastrac 10y agoWould the pressures in a Jovian not be enough to form metallic hydrogen?
- zeristor 10y agoBy Jove?!
- sho 10y agoYour attempt at humour has been rightly sanctioned, but you weren't all that far from the mark. Jove is another name for the roman god Jupiter, and as such a Jovian planet is one that resembles Jupiter - ie. large gas giants, where metallic hydrogen is certainly thought to exist in nature. Not by Jove - inside Jove.
- JoshTriplett 10y agoTo get solid metallic hydrogen, you'd need both high pressure and low temperatures; in the celestial bodies that can provide the former, the latter seems unlikely.
- sixbrx 10y agoJupiter is indeed believed to have a liquid metallic hydrogen core, which is the source of its enormous magnetic field: https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09aug_juno3/ https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/0...
- eevilspock 10y agoThat not only assumes it could never happen naturally, but also that we are the only intelligent life in the universe. The aliens working undercover among us now are rolling their 7 photoreceptors at our anthropocentrism.
- colordrops 10y agoI'm being pedantic, but should be "human knowledge", not "universe". It is absurdly unlikely that the conditions needed for this substance to exist never occurred in the ~1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 star systems in the known universe. "conditions needed" includes intelligent life creating these substances.
- Pyxl101 10y agoAre you assuming there's no other intelligent life in the universe? :-)