Trihydrogen Cation: Heard of it?

https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry/astrochemistry/Trihydrogen-important-ion-ve-never/97/i23

Three protons and two electrons. Very good. Very odd. Very important.

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This is crazy! Three protons, two electrons, but a 3-atom molecule!? Very interesting.

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Is “300 million years” really “a blink of an eye in cosmological time”? I get that cosmological time is long but it still seems like a pretty good chunk :slight_smile:

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