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• Strangelets are incredibly dense particles, so far known only in theory. They are made of quarks and strange quarks.SPACE.com: Stranger than Fiction? Strangelets Bombard Earth (May 13, 2002)

• Fast Facts

  1. Theoretical particle
  2. Three theoretical types: light, heavy and mediumPhysics News Update: Strangelets are Strange but not Dangerous (November 15, 2000)
  3. May exist inside neutron starsPhysics News Update: Strangelets are Strange but not Dangerous (November 15, 2000)

• The Strangelet Threat

  According to some researchers, strangelets could be created by the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator currently being built in Switzerland and France by CERN. The Large Hadron Collider will accelerate particles at rates heretofore unaccomplished by researchers. Critics are concerned that it will create strangelets, which they argue would immediately destroy the planet by turning all particles they came in contact with into strangelets, which would then continue the conversion until the Earth and everything on it were strangelets. Researchers counter that colliders will likely make positively charged strangelets, which would repel other particles nearby.Physics News Update: Strangelets are Strange but not Dangerous (November 15, 2000)

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