The Race to Turn Gassy Hydrogen into Solid Metal

Damn Interesting has a piece on the race to produce the first liquid hydrogen over a century ago:

http://www.damninteresting.com/absolute-zero-is-0k/

From the article: "He did so with the full awareness that he was among the last of a disappearing breed—the “classical physicists” who had the luxury of simply banging on matter until it did interesting Newtonian things."

Interesting, but didn't SA already tell us about a gravity-defying superfluid in 2009? [1] One that doesn't need a gazillion GPa of pressure to work with?

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/superfluid-can-cli...

This is material science porn!