strangelets

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@ogb
Here is some far-out stuff about strangelets from an encyclopedia:

'The strange matter hypothesis remains unproven. No direct search for strangelets in cosmic rays or particle accelerators has seen a strangelet. If any of the objects such as neutron stars could be shown to have a surface made of strange matter, this would indicate that strange matter is stable at zero pressure, which would vindicate the strange matter hypothesis. However there is no strong evidence for strange matter surfaces on neutron stars.

Another argument against the hypothesis is that if it were true, essentially all neutron stars should be made of strange matter, and otherwise none should be. Even if there were only a few strange stars initially, violent events such as collisions would soon create many fragments of strange matter flying around the universe. Because collision with a single strangelet would convert a neutron star to strange matter, all but a few of the most recently formed neutron stars should by now have already been converted to strange matter.

This argument is still debated, but if it is correct then showing that one old neutron star has a conventional nuclear matter crust would disprove the strange matter hypothesis.

Because of its importance for the strange matter hypothesis, there is an ongoing effort to determine whether the surfaces of neutron stars are made of strange matter or nuclear matter. The evidence currently favors nuclear matter. This comes from the phenomenology of X-ray bursts, which is well explained in terms of a nuclear matter crust, and from measurement of seismic vibrations in magnetars.'

@lemondrop said
run!!!

@bunnyknight
All you have to do is look at the age of the solar system and see how many folks have been killed by these particles so the bottom line is the risk is so low as to be safely considered to be zero so what is all this all about anyway?

@sonhouse said
@bunnyknight
All you have to do is look at the age of the solar system and see how many folks have been killed by these particles so the bottom line is the risk is so low as to be safely considered to be zero so what is all this all about anyway?

@bunnyknight
Yeah, it happens SO often. Be prepared, I say🙂

@bunnyknight said
It's all about finding out if we should scream in panic as we worry about the possibility that a strangelet could hit our dog, our cat, or our mother, and in a matter of seconds convert them into strange-matter. And the thought of having a strange-matter cat in my house terrifies me.

@Shallow-Blue
Or the black hole reported to be in the center of Earth.

@sonhouse said
@Shallow-Blue
Or the black hole reported to be in the center of Earth.

@bunnyknight said
Has it ever occurred to you that Earth could be mostly hollow, containing a vast grid-work of hundreds of levels, each a mile high, with gravity supplied by a black hole at the center?
And its builders could still be happily living down there while observing and laughing at the silly primitive humans doing their silly stupid things above.

@ogb
Too bad he didn't fall in.....
I wonder how the hollow Earthers rationalize earthquakes when the whole Earth has been according to them, manufactured.

The thing about a black hole in the center of Earth theory, there would be nothing to stop the thing moving out of center and poking out the surface and just continuing on it's way since the mass would have to be near that of Earth to make this alleged gravity field we feel due to the mass of Earth.

That bunch is probably as nutty as the flat Earthers too.

@sonhouse said
@ogb
Too bad he didn't fall in.....
I wonder how the hollow Earthers rationalize earthquakes when the whole Earth has been according to them, manufactured.

The thing about a black hole in the center of Earth theory, there would be nothing to stop the thing moving out of center and poking out the surface and just continuing on it's way since the mass would have to be nea ...[text shortened]... field we feel due to the mass of Earth.

That bunch is probably as nutty as the flat Earthers too.

@bunnyknight
Ah, so they also must have teleportation technology to get the cheese from the moon to their homes under the sea. Amazing, eh. We are clueless🙂

@deepthought said
You haven't the faintest idea of what you're talking about, have you?

@ogb
So you finished SIX credits?