Did Scientists Really Make Metallic Hydrogen?

The Researchers reconstructed the face of the organism which might be one of our earliest ancestors. Meanwhile, two researchers from Harvard announced that they have created solid metallic hydrogen.

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[Ryukachoo]

5:06
woah wait a second, metallic hydrogen stays metallic outside the temperature and pressure requirements of its creation? it becomes stable in metallic form?
holy SHIT I had no idea, I thought it could only stay metallic in those extreme conditions. HOLY SHIT, HOLY SHIT THIS COULD BE HUGE

[Master_Therion]

Those scientists who created metallic Hydrogen must have been under a lot of pressure.
;)

[AvailableUsernameTed]

Pfft what do Harvard physicists know? They're just evolved wrinkly bagged deuterostomes.

[Carlos-xsks]

If scientists turned Hydrogen into a metal, they sure had a *solid* understanding of gases!

[SupLuiKir]

Wouldn't metallic hydrogen go back to being a gas once you relieved the pressure? Or is it stable in that state?

[phantasm]

Do you think you could do a video on cerebral aneurysms? I had one rupture at 19 and I think it would be great for people to know about them!

[DragoniteSpam]

> the scishow commenters' favorite word, "anus." Good game, guys.

Edit: the first YouTube comment I write that hits a thousand points, and it's one congratulating the comments section for establishing "anus" as your favorite word. What has happened to my life.

[TimesChu]

Just looked it up (April 2019 now) and it seems the sample was "lost" after the diamond anvils broke. Convenient that nobody got a good look at the sample before it was destroyed.

[sacredbanana]

So my great great great great great ... ... ... grandfather is a wrinkly sack

[dummypg]

Discovering ancient living organism AMAZING.
Host's face while translating it's scientific name as "Wrinkled Sac", PRICELESS...

[GiantSavage]

I have an actual meaningful question. Could said Metallic Hydrogen be used as a fuel source, AKA fuel pellets, for the theorized fusion engine? If that is true that could mean actual manned exploration of the solar system, possibly in my lifetime, I hope. I would like to see Humans land on another planet before I am put in a home for the elderly.

[budi]

or one could simply mined it from pandora, they do have a lot of such superconductor material that do the trick at room temperature, it's called an "unobtainum".

[MegaMinerd]

Why is it painful to drink water when I'm hungry?

[arielmscisney]

Glad you guys are keeping a strong emphasis on the scientific method and the power of peer review and scepticism! A+

[alexsiemers]

1:09 Guys, they're catching on...

[KubrickFR]

Superconductor at room temperature = hoverboard !

[DanZhukovin]

WHY THE FUCK DIDNT THEY NAME IT METALLOGEN

[Edgewalker]

So... I'm not a chemist and definitely not a physicist (And I always look at that word and wonder if I'm spelling it correctly) but if I understand this correctly, solid metals are normally formed out of lots of metal atoms that all have arrangements that lets them form positive ions, laid out in flat sheets on top of each other, and hydrogen is a gas that can easily become positively charged ions (which are basically just one proton each since it's the lightest element) and it normally sticks together two atoms to form stable molecules in gas form.
What exactly is it that is supposed to allow it to go from little chunks of two atoms each into a proton and electron goop and then somehow form sheets that stick together?
Will they all share electrons and bind together that way?

[_volder]

Making power transmission lines from an especially powerful rocket fuel? I think this plan might need some... adjustment.

[patrickroelant]

im so freaking glad that you guys post sources, i mean i dont know why you wouldnt, but im so glad that there is