Brookhaven Physicists Produce "Doubly Strange Nuclei"

da5id@netlimit.com writes: "Advanced physics news! Physicists have produced double "strange quarks" atoms using the biggest Proton Beam Laser on Earth... "UPTON, NY - Strange science has taken a great leap forward at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. There, physicists have produced a significant number of "doubly strange nuclei," or nuclei containing two strange quarks. Studies of these nuclei will help scientists explore the forces between nuclear particles, particularly within so-called strange matter, and may contribute to a better understanding of neutron stars, the super dense remains of burnt-out stars, which are thought to contain large quantities of strange quarks.""

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Re:Is the world gone yet?

[DahGhostfacedFiddlah]

Actually, here's a story on how we narrowly averted an apocalypse, thanks to the wonders of the laws of physics.

Doubly Strange?

[Vuarnet]

Scientist1: Hey, check this out.

Scientist2: Wow... that's strange.

Scientist1: Really strange.

Scientist2: It's more than just regular strange, it's... strange strange.

Scientist1: Yup, doubly strange.

Scientist2: I wonder how we should call it?

And the rest, of course, is history.