From: r_delaney2001@yahoo.com   
      
   One of the purposes of the Juno mission, is to   
   investigate Jupiter's core.  Supposedly, it's composed   
   of solid hydrogen, in metallic state, the result of   
   enormous pressure.   
      
   Can anyone explain this 'squeezing' process, which   
   drives the electrons out?  Presumably, into a   
   conduction band, hence a metallic, conducting state.   
      
   Pressure is classical, macroscopic physics, whereas   
   electron orbits are essentially a quantum phenomenon,   
   deriving from Pauli exclusion, and I don't see how   
   to reconcile these domains.   
      
   --   
   Rich   
      
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