Metal transition in Earth's core

[Welsh cake]

Quote:Under extreme pressures and temperatures, one of the main materials of the Earth's interior has exhibited a never-before-seen transition.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16265510

I had long suspected that subatomic particles would behave differently in such extremes, heck, neutron stars themselves may composed of crazily-dense elements that can only stabilize under such conditions.

[Blam!]

There's four forms of the matter: Solid, liquid, gas, plasma. If the scientists confirm this Metal transition in Earth's Core, it'll also confirm that there is potential forms of matter yet to be discovered.

I'm wondering - Isn't the material in the state of superconductivity possibly be another form of state of the matter?

[orogenicman]

Here is another article about the same research:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-iron...-core.html

[Chuck]

(21st December 2011 15:45)Blam! Wrote:  There's four forms of the matter: Solid, liquid, gas, plasma. If the scientists confirm this Metal transition in Earth's Core, it'll also confirm that there is potential forms of matter yet to be discovered.

I'm wondering - Isn't the material in the state of superconductivity possibly be another form of state of the matter?

Not really, the phase transition stated would still be solid. Solid of the same atomic composition can assume many different phases and still remain solid.

[Blam!]

According to this NASA's Article, there's 6 [wow -didn't know that] forms of matter:

-solids
-liquids
-gases
-plasmas
-Bose-Einstein condensates
-fermionic condensates

[Chuck]

Those are just the forms of matter we can create in the laboratory. There are other forms of matter we can't yet create in the laboratory but we can directly observe on white dwarf and neutron stars:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_matter

[Blam!]

(21st December 2011 19:18)Chuck Wrote:  Those are just the forms of matter we can create in the laboratory. There are other forms of matter we can't yet create in the laboratory but we can directly observe on white dwarf and neutron stars:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_matter

You have point. There's still possibility some of forms of matter can be discovered through by laboratory means.

[Moros Synackaon]

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