Metalic Hydrogen

[RetiredGySgt]

Scientists Have Found the 'Holy Grail' of Physics, Metallic Hydrogen

The substance has the potential to revolutionize everything from space travel to the energy grid.

getpocket.com

This could be great. We really need to explore our space and get off this planet.

 

[toobfreak]

Scientists Have Found the 'Holy Grail' of Physics, Metallic Hydrogen

The substance has the potential to revolutionize everything from space travel to the energy grid.

getpocket.com

This could be great. We really need to explore our space and get off this planet.

Won't work if the amount of energy needed put into forcing hydrogen to a metallic state (like in the center of a star) is more than the energy you get back out of it.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Scientists Have Found the 'Holy Grail' of Physics, Metallic Hydrogen

The substance has the potential to revolutionize everything from space travel to the energy grid.

getpocket.com

This could be great. We really need to explore our space and get off this planet.

Won't work if the amount of energy needed put into forcing hydrogen to a metallic state (like in the center of a star) is more than the energy you get back out of it.

It will work if it gives us fuel that revolutionizes space travel and that is one of the the things they say it might do.

 

[Grumblenuts]

This post originally appeared on Inverse and was published January 26, 2017.

Here's one sobering (nerdy) analysis made a week later ("Feb 3, 2017")(skip ahead to second half):



If they'd actually succeeded there'd be more news about it by now.. Such pronouncements are a dime a dozen. They're after more funding is the only solid conclusion.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

So if this is from 2017 does that mean they never did the next steps?

 

[Grumblenuts]

Probably never really got to square one.

 

[ChemEngineer]

Scientists Have Found the 'Holy Grail' of Physics, Metallic Hydrogen

The substance has the potential to revolutionize everything from space travel to the energy grid.

getpocket.com

This could be great. We really need to explore our space and get off this planet.

Gunny, we're not going anywhere. Do you know how long it took Voyager to leave our solar system?

Eleven years. And Alpha Centauri is 4 light years away. The next closest star. At our speed, that's what, a few lifetimes.