Firstly, the velocity of a projectile travelling through a body or object would be determined by the density, weight, shape and size of the object,in relation to the aerodynamic influences that impede or digress it's direction (i.e., slow it down/deflect it's path of travel). If the stranglete has truly travelled across time and space from the big bang, then that means that an incalculatable amount of influences have interacted with the 'object' since it's journey of 13 (odd) billion years to Earth. However, after all this time, it would still be somewhat influenced by the Earth's gravitational effect and that of the 'hard' particles that surround us. The density of the human body will matter little in the scheme of things if struck by an object travelling at 900,000mph. I would expect the person would not even get a chance to ponder the impact on their life. They are likely to not notice at first. The body would hardly register the particle passing through the body. But the heat from the object may very well vaporize the body immediately post-impact. So, entry and exit wounds and possibly path of travel passage through the body would be relative to the size of the strange quark nugget. They could be apparent (i.e. you could look through the entry hole, through the body along the path of travel and out the exit hole) for about a second before the heat energy has any effect (vaporization begins). I hope that this long-winded response sheds light on this interesting subject!
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Firstly, the velocity of a projectile travelling through a body or object would be determined by the density, weight, shape and size of the object,in relation to the aerodynamic influences that impede or digress it's direction (i.e., slow it down/deflect it's path of travel). If the stranglete has truly travelled across time and space from the big bang, then that means that an incalculatable amount of influences have interacted with the 'object' since it's journey of 13 (odd) billion years to Earth. However, after all this time, it would still be somewhat influenced by the Earth's gravitational effect and that of the 'hard' particles that surround us. The density of the human body will matter little in the scheme of things if struck by an object travelling at 900,000mph. I would expect the person would not even get a chance to ponder the impact on their life. They are likely to not notice at first. The body would hardly register the particle passing through the body. But the heat from the object may very well vaporize the body immediately post-impact. So, entry and exit wounds and possibly path of travel passage through the body would be relative to the size of the strange quark nugget. They could be apparent (i.e. you could look through the entry hole, through the body along the path of travel and out the exit hole) for about a second before the heat energy has any effect (vaporization begins). I hope that this long-winded response sheds light on this interesting subject!