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Metal transition in Earth's core
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 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.  RE: Metal transition in Earth's core
December 21, 2011 at 10:45 am
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2011 at 10:46 am by 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? 
Here is another article about the same research:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-iron...-core.html
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December 21, 2011 at 1:21 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2011 at 1:23 pm by 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 RE: Metal transition in Earth's core
December 21, 2011 at 2:18 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2011 at 2:19 pm by Anomalocaris.)
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 (December 21, 2011 at 2:18 pm)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:You have point. There's still possibility some of forms of matter can be discovered through by laboratory means. 
Better tools needed.
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