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Quark soup may cause cosmic flashes
Nature ^ | 2/23/05 | Philip Ball

Posted on 02/24/2005 12:17:45 AM PST by LibWhacker

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Quark stars? Are there string stars -- as in string theory -- so dense that the quarks break down into strings?
1 posted on 02/24/2005 12:17:47 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

bump


2 posted on 02/24/2005 12:22:39 AM PST by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: LibWhacker; phoenix0468
Did you catch the articles on the magnatars?

Producers of Cosmic Rays.

One of the articles ( keyword magnetar ):

Starburst Was One of Brightest Objects Observed on Earth

3 posted on 02/24/2005 12:37:23 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Yes, saw that one, thanks. Weird universe we live in!


4 posted on 02/24/2005 12:42:30 AM PST by LibWhacker
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Quark soup may cause cosmic flashes

Does Campbell's sell that stuff? Will it get you high? :-)

5 posted on 02/24/2005 12:54:29 AM PST by sourcery (Resistance is futile: We are the Blog)
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Intense flashes of gamma rays in far-off galaxies might be produced by a bizarre kind of star, consisting of phenomenally dense material in which the particles that make up atomic nuclei have fallen apart.

Fallen apart, or squooshed?

6 posted on 02/24/2005 12:55:43 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: sourcery

Lol, I was wondering about something similar to that; i.e., how much does a can of Campbell's Quark Soup weigh?


7 posted on 02/24/2005 12:58:24 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: fooman

ping


8 posted on 02/24/2005 1:50:37 AM PST by Mycroft Holmes (Fnord!)
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bump


9 posted on 02/24/2005 1:56:42 AM PST by JFK_Lib
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Quark Soup?

Isn't that what McNabb's mother makes for the Eagles?

10 posted on 02/24/2005 2:25:21 AM PST by leadhead (Meeting: None Of Us Is As Dumb As All Of Us.)
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Does Campbell's sell that stuff? Will it get you high? :-)


No and no, but my wife makes it and I have cosmic flashes every time.


11 posted on 02/24/2005 5:07:04 AM PST by freedomfiter2
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To: LibWhacker

bumpity


12 posted on 02/24/2005 5:10:56 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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Quark star,
I see you in the morning
Quark star
Sleeping next to me....


13 posted on 02/24/2005 5:13:31 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (Give Lebanon back to the Lebanese!)
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To: LibWhacker

ping - to locate thread


14 posted on 02/24/2005 5:56:36 AM PST by NonLinear ("If not instantaneous, then extraordinarily fast" - Galileo re. speed of light. circa 1600)
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To: LibWhacker

Not a physicist, so I am waiting to be slapped down by someone who is but... I believe that quarks are not composed of strings according to string theory, but rather that quarks ARE strings. That is, the various quark flavors are different vibrational modes of a string. Electrons, neutrinos, and other leptons would be other vibrational modes of the string.


15 posted on 02/24/2005 7:07:23 AM PST by stremba
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To: PatrickHenry

This is interesting. Ping the list???


16 posted on 02/24/2005 7:08:43 AM PST by stremba
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To: LibWhacker

Wouldn't a Quark Star be an actor that was in the show 'Quark'?

A very funny sitcom about an interstellar garbage scow.


17 posted on 02/24/2005 7:09:44 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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Ping the list???

Arrrggghhh. This is interesting, but not earth-shaking. We already have a big bang thread going this morning, and it drives everyone crazy to have multiple threads going. I'm gonna wait before pinging the list.

18 posted on 02/24/2005 7:27:59 AM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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and it drives everyone crazy to have multiple threads going. I'm gonna wait before pinging the list.

An argument for a Science Forum.

And for some of us it's just a short putt.

19 posted on 02/24/2005 7:36:54 AM PST by ASA Vet (FR needs a science forum.)
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To: ASA Vet
An argument for a Science Forum.

With keyword searches, you can find all the science threads you want. My personal preference is to keep these theads where they are.

20 posted on 02/24/2005 7:39:53 AM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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