everything that a strangelette touches turns into one is someone pulling my leg
2007-03-21 09:08:12 · 3 answers · asked by poindextera 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Hi. I would not have believed this, but from the web: "If there are strangelets flying around the universe, then occasionally a strangelet should hit the planet Earth, where it would appear as an exotic type of cosmic ray. This raises the question whether a strangelet from space would convert the whole planet to strange matter. The disaster scenario is this: one strangelet hits a nucleus, catalyzing its immediate conversion to strange matter. This liberates energy, and sends pieces (more strangelets) flying in all directions. These merge with other nuclei and convert them, leading to a chain reaction, at the end of which all the nuclei of all the atoms have been converted, and earth has been reduced to a hot cloud of strangelets."
It goes on to explain that since stranglets have a positive charge, they would rarely interact with a positively charged proton, but dang!
2007-03-21 09:19:26 · answer #1 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea, I think this type of gravity amounts to a pull on your leg.
2007-03-21 09:11:53 · answer #2 · answered by Jabberwock 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not a form of gravity, but of matter. a strangelet refers to small quantities of theoretical "strange matter". Read more at the link below:
2007-03-21 09:15:55 · answer #3 · answered by xooxcable 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋