Rogue Stars and Planets As Agents In Solar System Formation!!!

On 8/30/05, GARY ANSORGE dead_naked_drummer@... wrote: I believe you're confusing the solid Hydrogen produced
in some experimental high pressure/low temp labs with
metallic, which is predicted to remain in it's
metallic state, unless it's heated above it's
transition temperature, which is currently unknown.

I'm not confusing anything. Metallic hydrogen is metallic hydrogen.

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0858720.html

"By compressing liquid hydrogen to nearly 2 million atmospheres pressure and a temperature of 4,400K, a team at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory created metallic hydrogen for a millionth of a second."

http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/96/4.4.96/hydrogen.html

It may indeed be true that metallic hydrogen would retain its properties at high temperatures... but none of these sources mention that it would retain its properties at low (i.e. terrestrial) pressures. If it did, it would represent a major breakthrough, because it would violate one of the fundamental laws of physical chemistry.