A shower of quarks in a particle accelerator self-reassembled into "a very compressed object called a strangelet [that] would keep growing until all matter was converted to strange matter"? ❋ Geertz, Clifford (2005)
Other opponents have also sought to stop the collider, fearing either a black hole whose super-gravity would swallow the Earth or a theoretical particle called a strangelet that would turn the planet to goo. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A strangelet is a hypothetical particle that has an up quark, a down quark, and a strange quark - or at least equal numbers of them in that ratio. ❋ Unknown (2009)
CERN scientists have ruled out fears that the process could create a black hole whose super-gravity would swallow the Earth, or a theoretical particle called a strangelet that would turn the planet into goo. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Prior to the launch, the internet was abuzz with rumours that the particle accelerator could create black holes or an as-yet hypothetical particle called a strangelet that would grow and destroy the earth. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Before the startup, Internet-driven rumours said the LHC would create black holes or a nasty hypothetical particle called a strangelet that would gobble up the planet. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Another wild idea: The LHC might produce something called a strangelet that could convert our planet into a lump of dead "strange matter." ❋ Unknown (2008)
In fact, the LHC offers some of the very same concerns in and out of the HEP community that Brookhaven's RHIC provoked awhile back – you remember, the possibility that a 'strangelet' might be created that would cause a universal phase shift, alter the false vacuum state and/or otherwise bring an immediate end to all things. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"black hole" whose super-gravity would swallow the Earth, or a theoretical particle called a strangelet that would turn the planet to goo. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Or it could spit out something called a "strangelet" that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called "strange matter." ❋ Unknown (2009)
And there are concerns it will release energies so powerful that it will create a runaway black hole that will engulf the planet, or a "strangelet" particle that would transform Earth into a lump of strange matter. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Walter L Wagner and Luis Sancho claim that the risks have been downplayed by CERN, who have failed to provide an environmental impact statement as required by the National Environmental Policy Act. The experiments might result in a ravenous black hole or a "strangelet" that might reduce the planet to a dense lump called "strange matter". ❋ Unknown (2008)
So we might expect there to be strangelet particles, and indeed we might think that neutron star cores would convert into strangelet states as well. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At sufficiently high energy we might expect there to be strangelet production that is fairly copious, but so far — nada. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The original concerns were raised by theorists on a "non-zero" possibility that something like a strangelet could assemble from a quark-gluon plasma. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Or it could spit out something called a “strangelet” that would convert our planet to a shrunken dense dead lump of something called “strange matter.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
Other concerns include the creation of "strangelets" -- little things created when quarks, which make up protons and neutrons, are rearranged and remixed to make a certain type of negatively charged particle that will go around turning everything it touches into a negatively charged strangelet like itself. ❋ Unknown (2009)
| Reply | Permalink strangelet wrote on November 13, 2007 5: 25 PM: ❋ Unknown (2009)
Wow, [this kid] has been [asking] for [n00dz] all day. He's such a strangelet. ❋ Absters Jonsanto (2007)
