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Quark Matter Blamed for Paired 1993 Seismic Events
Ethanon writes "In an article posted by BBC, scientists have suggested that two "unassociated" seismic events that occurred in 1993 were actually strange Quark matter passing through the Earth at a speed of perhaps 250 miles per second. A spec of strange Quark matter the size of a human cell is said to be so dense that it could weigh a tonne! Check it out
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I think this was posted before.
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scientists have found that multi-posts of stories on slashdot are due to a quirk matter that passes through the slashdot queue at the high speed of 100 submissions/day.
The graphic at the top says that the Oct 22, 1993 particle entered at 09:55:47 and left at 09:56:14. That's 27 seconds.
The article says, "One event occurred on 22 October, 1993, when, according to the researchers, something entered the Earth off Antarctica and left it south of India 0.73 of a second later."
Which is it?
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>> They searched the world's seismographic records for so-called "unassociated events". They looked at more than a million records collected by the US Geological Survey between 1990 to 1993
Generally when you go looking through enough data, expecting to find something, you do.
An alternate theory, perhaps. Some drunken teenagers kicked the seismographs?
Not that this is something that really matters to anyone, alive or dead, either way.
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250 Miles per second?
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now that's what i call a .
QUARK EXPRESS
anything i tell you will cloud your opinion.
And there is no reasonable argument for the choice of 11 dimensions (1 time, 10 space, 6 compactified).
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Are you sure you are a mathematician?
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tconnors(UID #91126) posted a link to the original paper, the last time this was posted on /.
:), but this is a fascinating paper. They talk about how Strange Quark Nuggets contain strange, up and down quarks, which makes them stable enough to exist without condensing into protons and neutrons. It also talks about how SQNs are dark matter candidates - so these paired seismic events may be proof of this form of dark matter.
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This seems like an amazing amount of work - they went through nearly 10 million seismic event records, from 1981 to 1993.
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Hmmm...and I've never heard of Yang-Chibara manifolds and they aren't mentioned anywhere in arxiv.org.
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Any good amateur rocket/astronomy folks out there? If you shot something from Antartica opposite the direction of the tip of India at 450km/sec, on October 22, 1993, 09:55:57 GMT, where would it go?
- "History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men" -- Blue Oyster Cult, 'Godzilla'
Sure, it's heavy. Sure, it's going really fast. But the impact area is only the size of a cell. It would rupture cells along the path through your body, but the holes created wouldn't be big enough for blood to flow out of, and unless it struck a nerve cell you'd never feel it. The mass is not high enough for it to have any tidal effects. Even if it did hit your brain it probably wouldn't do enough damage to register.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
People blame sub-atomic particles for everything now.
What caused those earthquakes? Quarks.
What destroyed the World Trade Center? Quarks.
Who left the toilet seat up? Quarks.
Its about time people took responsibility for their actions and quit blaming the poor quarks.
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Yes but it would only impart a tiny bit if that energy into you as it struck. It would for the most part just pass right through you and do little to no damage that you could notice in the process.
After all, if it dumped all its energy right then and there, it would create an energetic event equal to an asteriod hitting the planet.
While it does dump 50kt worth of energy on its way through Earth, think about how thick the Earth is and then calculate how much damage is done per square centimeter. Not a lot really.
So yes it has a lot of energy, but it loses it only a bit at a time as it zips through objects. It will have to zip through a lot more very large objects before it ever could be stopped (or hit with a huge enough repelling force which would require enormous amounts of energy to generate).
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
Maybe this is finally a scientific reason for spontaneous human combustion?
These guys could use some help. Here's my idea: Put the information on line, distribute a client to analyze it. Surely the possibility of a quark collision is at least as good as finding an intelligent signal from another planet?
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" As a mathematician I'm usually very spectical of ..."
"Usually there is some problems..."
Whether or not you're a mathematician is debatable, but I'm pretty sure you'll never get confused with an English major. You have some "specticalular" problems with subject/verb agreements...
"There is almost no experimental proofs for quantum field theory."
Psst! You're a mathematician. You're supposed to be satisfied when the equations work out. Experimental proof is something done by... well... physicists.
"And there is no reasonable argument for the choice of 11 dimensions (1 time, 10 space, 6 compactified)."
Forget the funky math you just did, if you made up new math functions as often as you made up new words ("compactified?"), you'd be the next Newton.
"can by explained much easier due to the fact that several cohomology groups of the Yang-Chibara manifolds are simple and the remaining ones freely generated."
Dude! Paramount is looking for you! They need you to help write the next Star Trek series!
"The other well known phenomena of earth core oszillations"
We're off to see the wizard! The wonderful Wizard of Osz!
Actually, it probably wouldn't be that much worse getting one to the head than the rest of your body. I got a nail right into the back of my head once, and it did basically nothing. Admittedly, I was a springy-brained kid at the time, but a needle of a line through most any part of your brain is no real problem to work around.
Anybody remember that thing a few years ago about how MRI's don't show brain activity until after you do something? That wasn't really saying that your life is random and you're just rationalizing it, it just pointed out that your higher brain really isn't doing that much most of the time. 90% of the time you're coasting on the middle and lower brain. Conversations with coworkers are predictable and formulaic, so your big fancy brain hands it off to your brain stem and saves some glucose in case a puma tries to eat you.
For this post, the most my higher brain probably put in was the subject. Then some subroutines just stuck together memories and turned them into text. I didn't even have to consider typing it, that got handed off when I first sat down.
This means a lot for brain damage. Like in Hannibal. If somebody scoops out the right brain-bit, you could actually loose your subroutine for manners. There are actually people who've had strokes and lost certain, highly specific abilities. Like the ability to name fruit, in one textbook case. Just fruit, vegetables are fine, and just names. Show them an apple, they'll know it gets made into pies, they'll know if they like it or not, but the name they'll be clueless about. You could tell them it, and they'll remember as long as it's in their short term memory, but a few seconds later, it'll be gone, because the fruit naming call-up function got crushed by a blood clot.
From what I understand, that kind of thing will get adapted to in most cases, like your brain will start putting fruit under vegetables, and making a meta-function to deal with that irregularity.
Not like that stuff happens every time you get knocked in the head, it's just cool. My point is, a cell-sized hole through your head would have to be lined up incredibly well to kill you. You probably wouldn't even notice. And I'm not a neurosurgeon, I just play one on TV.