Why do the diamonds required for this compression need the fancy (and expensive) faceting?
Metals do not form through any mechanism involving a loss of molecular cohesion
Its molecules began to separate into single atoms, while the atoms' ELECTRONS began to behave like those of a metal.
The atoms need to re-configure and combine to form the metallic state, they didn't.
The team says that the newly found phase is only the beginning of the molecular separation and that still higher pressures are needed to create the pure atomic and metallic state predicted by theory.
Why do the diamonds required for this compression need the fancy (and expensive) faceting?
I know it is only an "artistic representation" but if I were one of the researchers involved, I would have told the "artist" about the actual surfaces of the diamonds used.
They found that at pressures equivalent to 3.25 million times that of Earth's atmosphere, hydrogen entered a new solid phase - named phase V - and started to show some interesting and unusual properties. Its molecules began to separate into single atoms, while the atoms' electrons began to behave like those of a metal.
This is a contradictory statement. Metals do not form through any mechanism involving a loss of molecular cohesion unless it's the first step of the phase transition. They never made it past this step.
A metallic structure is a regular structure.
And dissociation from the molecular state gives hydrogen atoms an additional degree in which they can form a symmetric (read: metallic) ordering.
... That is also what they did in the contradictory sentence I quoted.
An electron in single hydrogen atom "behaving like" an electron in a metal is much different than a metallic hydrogen lattice forming.
The atoms need to re-configure and combine to form the metallic state, they didn't.
Atoms do not have to "combine to form the metallic state". The protons should be close enough for the conduction band to contain electrons. Note that the temperature is probably high, so that occurs even with a sizeable band gap.
(Facepalm) Just when I thought you were learning to think...tsk tsk.
When Hydrogen, in any state, displays mobile electrons, you have an electric or plasma current....not a metal. What exactly is metallic hydrogen supposed to conduct there genius?
The question keeps coming back, do you have the ability to think?
You need to follow your own advice and lose the mainstream bias you display when anyone disagrees or questions a statement from an article.
They will never form a "metallic" lattice, IMO.
Why do the diamonds required for this compression need the fancy (and expensive) faceting?
I know it is only an "artistic representation" but if I were one of the researchers involved, I would have told the "artist" about the actual surfaces of the diamonds used.
A metal is defined as a condensed matter state with mobile electrons.
The hydrogen is conducting electrons, mainly.
You preposterous fool.
Hydrogen is composed of the two components of electricity.
When one of those components becomes mobile it is a current.
By claiming hydrogen becomes metallic through dissociation of of the molecules into atoms with mobile electrons that conducts electrons
you are claiming a plasma current is conducting electrical current when they are both forms of an electrical current.
This is the real gut buster. Somehow (and I have no interest in who did it, how, or why it was done)
mainstream astrophysics has convinced it's devout that the rules for density sorting paused when our gas giants were forming and proceeded to place the lightest element in the universe "under" all the heavier ones, jack up the temperature to thousands of degrees due to "pressure" from the heavier elements "above" it, and asked science to prove it's theory correct.
Now I have to explain to 2 of the mindless devout who think this is correct why it isn't using grade school physics.Your opinion is wrong
No, it's not. The theory is rediculous...clearly.
As a sidebar, I love this site because of the ratings people get just because of who they are engaging in a thread. It's like watching people clap for Kanye West.
[Now children, lets figure out how the lightest element in the universe exists in bulk at the core of a planet.
This is the real gut buster. Somehow (and I have no interest in who did it, how, or why it was done)
mainstream astrophysics has convinced it's devout that the rules for density sorting paused when our gas giants were forming and proceeded to place the lightest element in the universe "under" all the heavier ones, jack up the temperature to thousands of degrees due to "pressure" from the heavier elements "above" it, and asked science to prove it's theory correct.
Maybe some of you will open your minds a little more?
http://www.ptep-o...6-07.PDF
Take a chance learn something instead of just having faith in dogma decided almost a century ago.
Maybe some of you will open your minds a little more?
http://www.ptep-o...6-07.PDF
yep
Jan 7, 2016http://www.ptep-o...6-07.PDF