Month: September 2022

NEUTRON STAR SPEW. “This is strange matter. And it could exist here on Earth already, deposited in our water or tucked away in Arctic meteorites. This strange matter is like a pathogen — infecting and converting normal matter into something altogether different. “A lump of strange matter has an insatiable appetite for neutrons and grows fat by eating them.” Anything coming into contact with the border of strange matter would be consumed by it, altered at a subatomic level until the normal matter itself became strange.” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

“STRANGE MATTER is thought to exist in the interior of neutron stars. These stars are what remain after massive stellar cores have exhausted all their fuel and collapse, birthing a bountiful supernova in the process. Electrons and protons merge into neutrons, reaching a maximum density at a radius of about 6 miles (10 km).” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

FAILSAFE BUTTON NEEDED. “Assuming that a superintelligence will contain a program that includes all the programs that can be executed by a universal Turing machine on input potentially as complex as the state of the world, strict containment requires simulations of such a program, something theoretically (and practically) impossible.” Disturbing at the least, https://lnkd.in/ddCku3H View in LinkedIn

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COSMOS INFIRMA. “Very little is known about the interior of neutron stars, but there is evidence that strange matter may lie just beneath the thin crust of ions, electrons, and gas. Some hypotheses suggest that there may not even be such a thing as neutron stars and that every object we suspect to be a neutron star is actually a strange star.” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

NEUTRONIUM. “Ordinary neutron stars should have a fluid made almost entirely of neutrons beneath the crust. This is neutronium, a mysterious and extremely dense substance. Just a spoonful of it would weigh more than Earth’s tallest mountain. But this neutronium doesn’t exist just anywhere — it exists at the center of a neutron star where immense pressures can cause the neutrons to melt into quarks. Neutrons are not, after all, elementary particles. Quarks are.” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

LABILE. “But strange matter from just after the Big Bang could not have survived up until now. When scientists take into account the early conditions of the universe, thermodynamics, and the expected properties of strange matter, analyses show time and again that strange matter would have evaporated as conditions cooled, lasting until only a second after the Big Bang explosion. This evaporation is also the main reason why strange matter doesn’t make a convincing dark matter candidate.” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

LOWEST ENERGY STATE. “A neutron enters strange matter and dissolves to release its quarks, lowering its energy. This lower energy state is more stable — possibly the most stable energy source in the entire universe.” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

DO NOT LET THIS IMAGE GO. “As neutrons and protons bleed into the strange matter and morph into the buzzing quark bath, any freed energy will work to further convert more matter into strange matter.” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

VAPORIZATION. “In principle, strange matter should be heavier and more stable than normal matter. Moreover, it might even be capable of converting ordinary matter it encounters into more strange matter. Previous research suggested that a strange quark star that occasionally spurts out strange matter could quickly convert a neutron star orbiting it in a binary system into a strange quark star in just 1 millisecond to 1 second.” https://lnkd.in/dhCeUnA View in LinkedIn