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REASONS WHY ITS CALLED STRANGE. “Strange matter, or strange quark matter, is quark matter containing strange quarks. In nature, strange matter is hypothesized to occur in the core of neutron stars, or, more speculatively, as isolated droplets that may vary in size from femtometers (strangelets) to kilometers, as in the hypothetical strange stars. At high enough density, strange matter is expected to be color superconducting.” https://lnkd.in/diwX_X4 View in LinkedIn

IF IFS AND ANDS WERE POTS AND PANS...”Have you counted the "ifs" we've thrown at you so far? If strange matter existed in space, if it were hurled at Earth, if it were stable at the pressures in space and on Earth, if it were more stable than our matter and if it were negatively charged -- it could turn you into a lump of unruly quarks. So no, you probably shouldn't be afraid of strange matter, but it's fun to think about.” (...The world would be a kitchen) https://lnkd.in/dx-2fEu View in LinkedIn

CHAIN REACTION. “How could strange matter be dangerous? Under special circumstances, it "eats" other matter. In order for this to happen, the strange matter has to be more stable than the matter it meets and not repel it. If those conditions are met, the other matter will "want" to convert to strange matter, and contact between the two will get things going. The result would be an ever-growing ball of strange matter, burning through matter like a fireball. For such a disaster scenario to occur on Earth, strange matter would have to remain for more than a fraction of a second at earthly pressures, and we don't know if it can do that. It would also have to be negatively charged.” https://lnkd.in/dx-2fEu View in LinkedIn

ORIGIN OF STRANGE MATTER. “The most likely place to find strange matter is in neutron stars. These collapsing stars compress their interiors forcefully. "At the core, you have densities and pressures large enough to form strange matter. If strange matter formed in the core, it would eat its way out and consume the star.” Underneath its crust, the star would become a lump of strange matter, or a strange star. If two strange stars collided, they could send strange matter careening toward Earth.” https://lnkd.in/dx-2fEu View in LinkedIn

NONE ON EARTH. “Could strange matter be on Earth now? Physicists have considered it. They've sampled our water and other matter, finding nothing. The likelihood of creating strange matter in a particle accelerator would be as low as making "an ice cube in a furnace," the reviewers concluded.” https://lnkd.in/dx-2fEu View in LinkedIn

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ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. “The universe is kind of an impossible object. It has an inside but no outside; it’s a one-sided coin. This Möbius architecture presents a unique challenge for cosmologists, who find themselves in the awkward position of being stuck inside the very system they’re trying to comprehend.” https://lnkd.in/dFmyVd7 View in LinkedIn