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Originally posted by Christianbookworm View PostI guess strange quarks are very strange? What do they do anyway?
The "strange" name, i think, came about because nobody had expected unstable quarks, and they found it difficult to explain their decay pattern."Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from trolling."
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Originally posted by TheLurch View PostThe Ω− baryon is composed entirely of strange quarks.
It's now looking like particles with four or more quarks are also possible, though. So technically, something with five strange quarks could be possible, and thus even stranger.
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If the strange matter hypothesis is incorrect and its surface tension is larger than the aforementioned critical value, then a larger strangelet would be more stable than a smaller one. One speculation that has resulted from the idea is that a strangelet coming into contact with a lump of ordinary matter could convert the ordinary matter to strange matter.[14][15] This "ice-nine"-like disaster scenario is as follows: one strangelet hits a nucleus, catalyzing its immediate conversion to strange matter. This liberates energy, producing a larger, more stable strangelet, which in turn hits another nucleus, catalyzing its conversion to strange matter. In the end, all the nuclei of all the atoms of Earth are converted, and Earth is reduced to a hot, large lump of strange matter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelet
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostIs that anything like the strangelet?
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If the strange matter hypothesis is incorrect and its surface tension is larger than the aforementioned critical value, then a larger strangelet would be more stable than a smaller one. One speculation that has resulted from the idea is that a strangelet coming into contact with a lump of ordinary matter could convert the ordinary matter to strange matter.[14][15] This "ice-nine"-like disaster scenario is as follows: one strangelet hits a nucleus, catalyzing its immediate conversion to strange matter. This liberates energy, producing a larger, more stable strangelet, which in turn hits another nucleus, catalyzing its conversion to strange matter. In the end, all the nuclei of all the atoms of Earth are converted, and Earth is reduced to a hot, large lump of strange matter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangelet
It's the quantum zombie apocalypse!"Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from trolling."
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Originally posted by Christianbookworm View PostWhat is the strangest state of matter?
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