Durabys
A Cheshire Exile
So. Because there was interest. I am re-posting my SB thread here.
Let's continue the debate where we left it:
Guess what? SciFi Unobtanium Bullshit Materials may be real after all! Please welcome udQM elements!
In other words? That always elusive 'Island of Stability' turns out to be a 'Continent of Stability'. A completely new Periodic Table awaits us. None of these new super-materials are made of Protons or Neutrons. "Neutronium", "Element Zero", "Naquadah", "Trinium" and other such plot-driving...
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In other words? That always elusive 'Island of Stability' turns out to be a 'Continent of Stability'. A completely new Periodic Table awaits us. None of these new super-materials are made of Protons or Neutrons.
"Neutronium", "Element Zero", "Naquadah", "Trinium" and other such plot-driving materials may exist after all!
Rest of article on page:
New form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table
Captains Ivanova and Sheridan: get dreamy expressions
A crucial feature of all known baryonic matter is that its quarks are bound together so tightly by the strong force that they are inseparable.
As particles made of bound quarks are called hadrons, scientists refer to the ground state of baryonic matter as «hadronic matter».
One of the new results of the latest study is that quark matter without strange quarks, i.e., udQM, has lower bulk energy per baryon than either SQM or hadronic matter, making it energetically favorable.
In the future, the researchers plan to explore the possibility of searching for quark matter, both on Earth and in more distant locations.
«We would like to know more about the abundance of quark matter in the universe,» the researchers said.
"If quark matter is found (or produced in accelerators), it may be stored and then fed with slow neutrons or heavy ions. The absorption of these particles means a lower total mass and thus a release of energy, mostly in the form of gamma radiation. Unlike nuclear fusion, this is a process that should be easy to initiate and control."
Everyone else: start sweating bullets
Big BOOM? Yes! There will be a BIG BOOM!!!
Let's continue the debate where we left it:
Guess what? SciFi Unobtanium Bullshit Materials may be real after all! Please welcome udQM elements!
In other words? That always elusive 'Island of Stability' turns out to be a 'Continent of Stability'. A completely new Periodic Table awaits us. None of these new super-materials are made of Protons or Neutrons. "Neutronium", "Element Zero", "Naquadah", "Trinium" and other such plot-driving...forums.spacebattles.com
Is this udQM thing legit, or is Durabys making mountains out of molehills?
While Durabys can be excitable, he's always one trying for a decent source to back up his claims. At least he isn't Wisky-08, that person acts like a jackrabbit whenever he finds something interesting (and by god, he finds obscure shit like you wouldn't believe).
David Khoo on SB thinks it will end in making Strangelet-like particles that will consume the Earth. Opinons?Double post, but I'm reading the phys.org article now, and it talks about a paper that seems to make a lot of hypotheses without having any observation or whatever, and references similar hypotheses made in 1984, so don't get too excited, it feels more like some nice possibility that still has to be identified, detected, confirmed and whatever.
@Vorpal will most likely be able to give a better opinion on this than whatever I can come up with, but it seriously looks like @Durabys being excited by some bold and currently unverifiable claims. Sorry, lad.