dr. isaac silvera, he's a named chair, very fancy professor at harvard.e says he just created something that never existed before on the face of the earth. and he and his post-doctoral researcher, they made this brand new thing using this little device which is small and doesn't look that mighty but i think we've gotten a image of it here. this device is called a diamond anvil cell.

dr. isaac silvera, he's 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 post-doctoral researcher, they made this brand new thing using this little device which is small and doesn't look that mighty but i think we've gotten a image of it here. this device is called a diamond anvil cell. it's 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 temp