Did Strange Quark Matter Pass Through?

Matter composed of strange quarks is thought to exist at the center of
some neutron stars, and in quark stars. Unlike neutronium, strange
quark matter is thought to be stable even outside of dense bodies, and
so there could be strange quark asteroids. Such asteroids would have
incredible density. Strange matter might have been formed in the Big
Bang itself.

Could a strange quark matter object strike and pass through the Earth
without destroying it? Some observational data suggests that two such
occurences might have occurred in 1993! Seismic events were found
where a distinct straight line signal was detected, the kind phenomena
thought to be produced by an object passing through the Earth at 40
times the speed of seismic waves. Entrance points and exit points were
calculated. Of course there is no proof that this was quark matter,
but scientists so far have no other explanation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2502755.stm

Could strange quark matter be the dark matter that everyone is looking
for?

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Matter composed of strange quarks is thought to exist at the center of
some neutron stars, and in quark stars. Unlike neutronium, strange
quark matter is thought to be stable even outside of dense bodies, and
so there could be strange quark asteroids. Such asteroids would have
incredible density. Strange matter might have been formed in the Big
Bang itself.

Could a strange quark matter object strike and pass through the Earth
without destroying it? Some observational data suggests that two such
occurences might have occurred in 1993! Seismic events were found
where a distinct straight line signal was detected, the kind phenomena
thought to be produced by an object passing through the Earth at 40
times the speed of seismic waves. Entrance points and exit points were
calculated. Of course there is no proof that this was quark matter,
but scientists so far have no other explanation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2502755.stm

Could strange quark matter be the dark matter that everyone is looking
for?

Double-A


Could be. And if they were we can all be thankful for the fact they were
moving so fast they couldn't be captured by the Earth, back in '93. If we
manage to make even a sub atomic amount by accident in one of the large
accelerators that are due to come on-line in a few years, it'll be a
different story! I did design a 'confinement chamber' that will hold a
strangelet for a limited amount of time -few days to a few weeks- hopefully
long enough to blast it into space where it'll do no harm, but so far there
is no interest in building it. It's too bad because one of the strongest
arguments used to 'prove' our accelerators are safe because they will not
produce anywhere near the energy levels to make quark matter, has been sadly
disproven. It has been determined that maybe 5% to 10% of the magnetic field
of a proton is caused by virtual strange quarks that spontaneously get
created inside it, and that means the energy needed to make a real strange
quark is maybe 5 times lower than previously thought. This means there is a
good chance someone will be saying "oops!" when they turn on an accelerator
and notice most of the energy is missing because it has gone into the
creation of a bistable strangelet. By the time they locate it drifting
through the body of the accelerator casing it'll be too late because they
will have no way to capture it. A few years later, we are all going to be
saying "oops!"

It seems the more our knowledge increases on this subject, the easier it
gets to make a strangelet...

Greysky

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Mornin Double-A Quark particles,and electrons came out of the BB. They
are particles of matter(named 'fermions' after Fermi) Since black holes
can come in any size theorists have proton size BH striking the
Earth(Siberia in 1905) Interesting this is the year(2005) that yet
another undiscovered particle called "Sparticles" are expected to be
produced in this years latest accelerators. These particles are expected
to have very large masses.(heavy stuff) Seems Double-A string theory
predicts them,and would give string theory a big boast. Beert