{"id":33828,"date":"2017-01-26T12:04:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/its-real-metallic-hydrogen-has-been-created-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:58:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:58:02","slug":"its-real-metallic-hydrogen-has-been-created-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/its-real-metallic-hydrogen-has-been-created-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"IT\u2019s Real: Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Created for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-real-metallic-hydrogen-has-been-created-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 80 years after it was first predicted, physicists have created metallic hydrogen \u2014 a mysterious form of hydrogen that could be capable of superconducting electricity without resistance at room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long suspected that hydrogen could exist as a metal in certain parts of the Universe, but this is the first time metallic hydrogen has ever been created on Earth, and the material is even stranger and more fascinating than scientists imagined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the holy grail of high-pressure physics,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2017-01\/hu-mho012517.php\">says lead researcher Isaac F. Silvera<\/a> from Harvard University. \u201cIt\u2019s the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you\u2019re looking at it, you\u2019re looking at something that\u2019s never existed before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hydrogen-has-been-turned-into-a-metal-for-the-first-time-ever#.WIpTkrc3d4M.facebook\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hydrogen-has-been-turned-into-a-...M.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 80 years after it was first predicted, physicists have created metallic hydrogen \u2014 a mysterious form of hydrogen that could be capable of superconducting electricity without resistance at room temperature. Scientists have long suspected that hydrogen could exist as a metal in certain parts of the Universe, but this is the first time [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49266,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33828\/revisions\/49266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}