Evidence of strange quark matter striking Earth?

sifi writes "A group of researchers have identified two seismic events that they think provide the first evidence of a previously undetected form of matter passing through the Earth. The BBC has the full story [bbc.co.uk]. The so-called strange quark matter is so dense that a piece the size of a human cell would weigh a tonne. I kind of like the idea that the whole Earth can be used as a sort of 'particle detector' - I just hope that I'm not in the way when another one passes through!"

Comments

Familiar

[Sandman1971]

Hmm, oh yeah, I know why it seems familiar!

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/22/195207 &mode=thread&tid=99 (posted Friday November 22, @04:58PM)

Maybe Slashdot 'editors' should be required to use the Slashdot search before submitting articles?

Re:Doubtful [OT]

[Mathness]

Occam's Razor requires that all simpler possible explanations be eliminated first.

Nope, quite the reverse. The principle states that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed.

Take a look here or here or do a search on Google.

Re:Doubtful [OT]

[Catskul]

Actually he correctly used it. His wording was just weird.

More clearly what he said was:

If you want to accept a theory, you must first eliminate the possiblilty that all simpler possible explanations are correct. If you dont eliminate all simpler explanations then by Occams Razor, one of those simpler explanations is the correct explanation

He's offering that his explanation is simpler and has not been eliminated as possible, so therefor by Occams must be correct.
Earn your title Mathness.