Supercomputer simulations by two Sandia researchers have significantly altered the theoretical diagram universally used by scientists to understand the characteristics of water at extreme temperatures and pressures.

The new computational model also expands the known range of water’s electrical conductivity.

The Sandia theoretical work showed that phase boundaries for “metallic water” — water with its electrons able to migrate like a metal’s — should be lowered from 7,000 to 4,000 kelvin and from 250 to 100 gigapascals.

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`Irony` actually does mean `metal like`...

I remember footage of an old diving bell that was being opened. No one was in it. When it was opened--a huge jet of water came out of it.

What?---I've been Blobbed!---good catch!

Hum,
i believe the term is ToSeeked.

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`Irony` actually does mean `metal like`...

In that case, whoever is responsible for phase boundaries should get off their duffs and lower them!

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PW -- Plant Whisperer

Nonsense! If we unilaterally lower our phase boundaries, who knows WHAT will leak in? I think we should RAISE our phase boundaries! And extend them!

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

Too late!

I saw that one myself. Only it was a set of stills in a book about Beebe. It was a test dive on a new diving bell. The window had a weakness in the frame only significant at great depth. On the way back up the internal pressure sealed the leak. IIRC It took them a long time to decide how to open it so nobody would get hurt.

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Gimme a minute to read through Jay's latest observations...