20 Aug 21
@ogb saidNow you got me super-curious:
will kill us all in a matter of seconds.. yes particles from neutrons stars and high speed colliders can "convert" normal matter to strange matter if they come into contact. They are made of strange quarks...
Could you hold a fistful of this strange matter in your hand?
Would it be hard or squishy or liquidy?
Would it be light or heavy?
Would it be super-strong or crumbly?
Would it burn or explode?
Could you make shoes out of it?
@ogb saidThe only way I see that happening is if one of your converted atoms causes other nearby atoms to convert in a domino-like effect. And how do you know that you wouldn't simply be converted into a new 'anti-person' or 'strange-matter-person' without even knowing it?
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you would be dead instantly once contact with one particle happens
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@bunnyknight saidinteresting idea..but the"normal" matter is destroyed when the strange matter touches it. I already know some strange people.though.
The only way I see that happening is if one of your converted atoms causes other nearby atoms to convert in a domino-like effect. And how do you know that you wouldn't simply be converted into a new 'anti-person' or 'strange-matter-person' without even knowing it?
21 Aug 21
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Okay, so just in our galaxy alone we have millions of neutron stars and black holes that could be spewing out zillions of these strangelet particles in all directions, yet no person, animal or vegetable has yet been converted. This means that these strangelets are either blocked by the magnetic fields, or by our atmosphere, or they simply destroy a single atom which hardly gets noticed, -- or any combination of the above.
So we might merely be seeing a mouse dressed as a tiger.
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21 Aug 21
@bunnyknight saidThe Strangelets take time to reach us. I don't know if we are protected or not. But if tomorrow Andromeda isn't there , then we know the Strangelet particles are heading our way...I suppose strangelets are a lot like Anti-matter..
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So we might merely be seeing a mouse dressed as a tiger.
Some believe in the "Many Worlds" theory..which I hope is right....
@ogb saidA particle that converts an atom to a different form is much different from an anti-matter particle that produces pure energy when touching matter. I assume these strangelets and strange-matter is something quite different.
The Strangelets take time to reach us. I don't know if we are protected or not. But if tomorrow Andromeda isn't there , then we know the Strangelet particles are heading our way...I suppose strangelets are a lot like Anti-matter..
Some believe in the "Many Worlds" theory..which I hope is right....
On the other hand, what if they are, let's say, anti-protons, in which case they would wipe-out a proton in a normal atom and suddenly your element is changed, causing unpredictable chaos.