DOTLAN EveMaps

Why strangelets are so dangerous? Simple. A strangelet is a mass of quarks, which works with 3 attractive forces far superior to those of any atom:

- The strong force of its massive number of quarks (100 times stronger than the weak electromagnetic force)

- The gravitational forces of those massive number of quarks (far stronger than any atom, since 99% of the mass of atomic particles are in the quarks)

- The charge of the quarks lumped in the strangelet (far stronger than any ion, due to the enormous numbers of quarks lumped in the strangelet)

The 3 forces together will attract atoms, positive ions if the strangelet is negative; electronic covers is the strangelet is positive; normal atoms with the gravitational force if the strangelet is neutral; atomic nuclei with the strong force in the quark-gluon soup made by the LHC. And so they will start either an explosive ice-9 reaction (fast process that triggers a super-nova) or in the case they are forming with a small mass of quarks, falling towards the center of the Earth, a distillation of new strangelets, as new atoms peg to the original strangelet attracted by those 3 super-forces. Both reactions will end up consuming all the matter of Earth.