What the h**l are strangelets?

Question

Can these things be produced at the LHC?

Answer 1

a figment of imagination....as most science of today seems to be.

Although it is their 'best' attempts to understand nature. It is merely a manmade labelling of the unknown. OR a make believe scenario.

Higg's boson is another. It's just plain misleading. But most of the self proclaimed experts are going to say it's all true, because the big-wigs do.

Don't worry about it...worry about the potential of an out of control singularity...but it won't happen, because the 'experts' say it won't ....right.

NO one is an expert in the unknown.

Answer 2

A strangelet or "strange nugget" is a hypothetical object consisting of a bound state of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks. The size could be anything from a few femtometers across (with the mass of a light nucleus) to something much larger. Once the size becomes macroscopic (on the order of meters across), such an object is usually called a quark star or "strange star" rather than a strangelet.

The LHC’s beams will have more energy than RHIC, but this makes it even less likely that strangelets could form. It is difficult for strange matter to stick together in the high temperatures produced by such colliders, rather as ice does not form in hot water. In addition, quarks will be more dilute at the LHC than at RHIC, making it more difficult to assemble strange matter. Strangelet production at the LHC is therefore less likely than at RHIC, and experience there has already validated the arguments that strangelets cannot be produced.