科学家熔化钻石并破解了冰巨星的秘密

科学家首次在实验室中模拟了冰巨星内部形成钻石雨的过程。这项由劳伦斯利物莫国家实验室（LLNL）物理学家完成的研究，不仅揭开了困扰学界20年的谜题，还为提升聚变能源产出提供了新思路。

Some of the strangest weather in the solar system doesn’t happen on Earth, or even Jupiter’s Great Red Spot - it happens in the interior of the Ice Giants like Neptune and Uranus. Specifically, scientists have long believed that, at certain pressure and temperatures, it literally rains diamonds inside of these planets. And for the first time, scientists have mimicked the process they believe creates that. A new paper by physicists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), published in Nature Physics, resolves a 20 year old scientific mystery, and shows how the same physics that makes it rain diamonds inside Neptune could also help us triple our fusion energy output.