I "Imagine" that being hit by single quarks would be like being hit by single neutrons, protons, etc.. Radiation damage.
However, if the Quark material reached a size large enough where it effect Hydrostatic Shock upon the Human body and the results would be catastrophic (for that one human, and anyone near by).
The article in question did not specify how large the quark matter believed to have passed through the earth in 1993 may have been. It only stated that "IF" an amount of the material equal to the size of a human cell, weighing 1 ton hit the earth, the effect would be the "50-kilotonne nuclear bomb" effect which would thus vaporize you and everyone else in a several mile radius. Maybe more since it would probably start generating that effect ass soon as it entered the atmosphere(though perhaps to a lesser degree?)
Creating an "Air Burst" explosion rushing towards the ground and then past it.
But really, ask the physicist who came up with the numbers..
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I "Imagine" that being hit by single quarks would be like being hit by single neutrons, protons, etc.. Radiation damage. However, if the Quark material reached a size large enough where it effect Hydrostatic Shock upon the Human body and the results would be catastrophic (for that one human, and anyone near by). The article in question did not specify how large the quark matter believed to have passed through the earth in 1993 may have been. It only stated that "IF" an amount of the material equal to the size of a human cell, weighing 1 ton hit the earth, the effect would be the "50-kilotonne nuclear bomb" effect which would thus vaporize you and everyone else in a several mile radius. Maybe more since it would probably start generating that effect ass soon as it entered the atmosphere(though perhaps to a lesser degree?) Creating an "Air Burst" explosion rushing towards the ground and then past it. But really, ask the physicist who came up with the numbers..