I would like to introduce you to the patron saint of pressure. His name is dr. Isaac silveira, hes a named chair, very fancy professor at harvard. He says he just created something that never existed before on the face of the earth. And he and his postdoctoral researcher, they made this brand new thing using this little device which is small and doesnt look that mighty but i think weve gotten a image of it here. This device is called a diamond anvil cell. Its basically like a vice where the two sides of the vice are specially polished specially coated synthetic diamonds and inside the vice grip they can create inside that little device they have figured out a way to produce almost unimaginable pressure. 72 Million Pounds of pressure per square inch. That is greater pressure than the pressure at the center of the earth. In that tiny little device. And by inventing a way to squeeze stuff that hard, they say, these researchers from this lab at harvard, they say they have created a whole n
The patron saint of pressure. His name is dr. Isaac silveira, hes a named chair, very fancy professor at harvard. He says he just created something that never existed before on the face of the earth. And he and his postdoctoral researcher, they made this brand new thing using this little device which is small and doesnt look that mighty but i think weve gotten a image of it here. This device is called a diamond anvil cell. Its basically like a vice where the two sides of the vice are specially polished specially coated synthetic diamonds and inside the vice grip they can create inside that little device they have figured out a way to produce almost unimaginable pressure. 72 Million Pounds of pressure per square inch. That is greater pressure than the pressure at the center of the earth. In that tiny little device. And by inventing a way to squeeze stuff that hard, they say, these researchers from this lab at harvard, they say they have created a whole new thing on earth. The first elem
Its basically like a vice where the two sides of the vice are specially polished specially coated synthetic diamonds and inside the vice grip they can create inside that little device they have figured out a way to produce almost unimaginable pressure. 72 Million Pounds of pressure per square inch. That is greater pressure than the pressure at the center of the earth. In that tiny little device. And by inventing a way to squeeze stuff that hard, they say, these researchers from this lab at harvard, they say they have created a whole new thing on earth. The first element in the periodic table is hydrogen. In normal circumstances, hydrogen is a gas. If you cool it to low temperatures hydrogen becomes a liquid. If you cool it down more than that it can become a solid. But if you take that solid and put it into professor silveras magic squeezing device you, according to what they say, according to what they think they have just done, they think they have figured out a way to compress hydro