Quark Stars

BigGar' writes "Astronomers seem to have discovered a new type of star. It would lie between a neutron star and and a black hole in the hierarchy of stars and consist of quark matter. Further observations with the Chandra X-ray telescope will be needed to confirm the results."

Analogies

[tcd004]

"Neutron stars are the vestiges of immense supernova explosions, collapsed stars with extremely compact cores, denser than all known objects except black holes. A teaspoonful of a neutron star would weigh one billion tons, as much as all the cars and trucks on Earth."

That would be one impressive teaspoon.

Tall, Blonde and Weaponized [lostbrain.com]
tcd004

yeah, ok

[doooras]

I guess Armin Shimmerman was pretty cool, but I don't think he's really a star... Or was that a different kind of Quark, that doesn't try selling self-sealing stembolts...

I'll say it with a song

[Anonymous Coward]

An All-Linux Think Tank [monolinux.com]
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Quark Sing-a-long Written by Lynda Williams
For Jefferson National Lab
Bring Our Daughters to Work Day.
(refrain)

Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top and Bottom!
The World is made up of Quarks and Leptons!
Up, Down, Charm, Strange,Top and Bottom!
Yum! Yum!

Quarks come in six flavors
They live in families of two.
Up Down, Charm Strange, Top and Bottom!
They come in anti-flavors too!

Each family makes a generation
between which is a mass gap.
The up quark is the lightest and the top quark
is the most fat!

The second and third generations
do not live for very long.
That's why everything in the Universe
is made up of Ups and Downs!

(refrain)

Quarks carry a color charge.
They come in red, green and blue.
You'll never see a quark all by itself
cuz they stick together with a strong force glue.

Quarks carry electric charge.
A fraction of electricity.
Quarks combine together so the total charge
is a multiple of unity!

An up, up down makes a proton for a total charge of plus one.
A down, up, down makes a DUD neutron!

Physics is so much YUM YUM PHUN!

(refrain)

copyright 1999 Lynda Williams
http://www.entersci.com/cosmic/quarkl.htm

Sounds cool...

[Jugalator]

Or as Mr D. Vader would put it:

If you only new the power of the quark side...

New Star Trek material!

[Kwirq]

Whereas before the coolest material they could build stuff out of in Star Trek was Neutronium (Neutron Star matter), such as the hull of the Planet Killer in the old series episode "The Doomsday Machine", know they can build stuff out of quarkonium!! Whee.

I'll go to bed now..

Re:I thought black holes didn't exist anymore...

[damien_kane]

From said story:
It seems that there's a growing movement that doubts the existence of black holes

Oh... black holes exist... it's the growing movement, that's the myth.

Re:Analogies

[Alsee]

That would be one impressive teaspoon.

There is no spoon.

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Re:And a 4th dimension

[Darby]

Physicians say they can't account for all the enrgy and mass that are beeing sucked into a black hole.

Strangely enough, neither can dentists or optometrists.