H-Metal, Not Natural on Earth
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such as Saturn, and the most common metal in the Universe, not found on
crust planets, as earth,and migrating to the rings, will be eventually
mined, for it's room temperature superconductive properties, and used in
spaceship hulls, and for other purposes.
It's the analogy for the the opposite of fusion, but comprising cold,
superconcuctive energy, just as powerful, and controllable, such as
called; Universal Flying Objects,or Motherships, defining some offworld
cultures advancements in science.
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/5307
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Uncle Clover
Hydrogen metal wouldn't continue to exist as you hauled it up out of the
jovian atmosphere. It's rather like an ice cube - it would first melt, and
then eventually evaporate. By the time you could haul a mass of it up to
your ship, the container would be empty.
Good thought, though. Perhaps there's something it can be bound with - an
alloy of sorts. If you took powdered hydrogen metal at the temperature and
pressure at which such a thing can form, and you mixed it with another
powdered metal (one that stays solid even in very high temperatures), then
could flash-melt and subsequently flash-cool them, it might just work. I'm
not sure how quickly one would have to do the melting than the cooling -
it's possible that there might only be a microsecond-long window of
opportunity in which such a process can be successful.
Come to think of it, they might also be able to do something similar with
hot ice - not making a metal alloy, necessarily, but -some- sort of alloy
that causes the ice to remain in its solid form even when no longer under
the intense pressures required to produce it.
That would be interesting - objects made out of solid water at room
temperature. Nifty ideas. :-)
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