A Mind-Blowing Discovery

In January 2017, a group of scientists of Harvard University have made a big breakthrough in physics. They’ve succeed to make what could be the rarest and the most valuable material on Earth. The physicists Isaac Silvera, who has been working on this problem for 45 years, and Ranga Dias managed to transform hydrogen gas, element number one of the periodic table, into a metallic state. To perform this amazing scientific advancement, Silvera’s team first used two heavy-duty diamonds to squeeze gaseous hydrogen and then lowered the temperature to -252°C  so he could take its liquid state. They then gradually increased the pressure until hydrogen finally took its metallic form, at around 4,65 million atmospheres. “This is the holy grail of high-pressure physics. It’s the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you’re looking at it, you’re looking at something that’s never existed before.”, says Isaac Silvera.

Personally, I think this discovery is awesome because it could be use in almost every domain. Metallic hydrogen is meta-stable, it means it would still stay in this state if the pressure was removed. It is also a superconductor which means it does not have electric resistance. Imagine wires made of this material. We could transport energy across the country without any loss. I think the day we’ll be able to use metallic hydrogen at high scale, will be revolutionary for sciences.

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi