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ENERGY SHELLS. “Strange matter comes about as a way to relieve degeneracy pressure. The Pauli exclusion principle forbids fermions such as quarks from occupying the same position and energy level. When the particle density is high enough that all energy levels below the available thermal energy are already occupied, increasing the density further requires raising some to higher, unoccupied energy levels. This need for energy to cause compression manifests as a pressure.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_matter View in LinkedIn

NEUTRON STARS STRANGE MATTER. “It could conceivably be non-strange quark matter, if the effective mass of the strange quark were too high. Charm quarks and heavier quarks would only occur at much higher densities.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_matter View in LinkedIn

STRANGE MATTER STARS. “Strange matter that is only stable at high pressure. Under the broader definition, strange matter might occur inside neutron stars, if the pressure at their core is high enough (i.e. above the critical pressure). At the sort of densities and high pressures we expect in the center of a neutron star, the quark matter would probably be strange matter.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_matter View in LinkedIn

SUPER CONDENSED MATTER. “Ordinary matter, also referred to as atomic matter, is composed of atoms, with nearly all matter concentrated in the atomic nuclei. Nuclear matter is a liquid composed of neutrons and protons, and they are themselves composed of up and down quarks. Quark matter is a condensed form of matter composed entirely of quarks. If quark matter contains strange quarks, it is often called strange matter (or strange quark matter), and when quark matter does not contain strange quarks, it is sometimes referred to as non-strange quark matter.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_matter View in LinkedIn

COMPACT STARS. “Unlike an electrical superconductor, color-superconducting quark matter comes in many varieties, each of which is a separate phase of matter. This is because quarks, unlike electrons, come in many species. There are three different colors (red, green, blue) and in the core of a compact star we expect three different flavors (up, down, strange), making nine species in all. Thus in forming the Cooper pairs there is a 9×9 color-flavor matrix of possible pairing patterns. The differences between these patterns are very physically significant: different patterns break different symmetries of the underlying theory, leading to different excitation spectra and different transport properties.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_superconductivity View in LinkedIn

BARELY COMPREHENSIBLE. “In theoretical terms, a color superconducting phase is a state in which the quarks near the Fermi surface become correlated in Cooper pairs, which condense. In phenomenological terms, a color superconducting phase breaks some of the symmetries of the underlying theory, and has a very different spectrum of excitations and very different transport properties from the normal phase.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_superconductivity View in LinkedIn

STRANGE MATTER HYPOTHESIS. “Under this hypothesis there should be strange matter in the universe: (1) Quark stars (often called "strange stars") consist of quark matter from their core to their surface. They would be several kilometers across, and may have a very thin crust of nuclear matter. (2) Strangelets are small pieces of strange matter, perhaps as small as nuclei. They would be produced when strange stars are formed or collide, or when a nucleus decays.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_matter View in LinkedIn

STABILITY. “Strange matter that is stable at zero pressure. If the "strange matter hypothesis" is true then nuclear matter is metastable against decaying into strange matter. The lifetime for spontaneous decay is very long, so we do not see this decay process happening around us.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_matter View in LinkedIn