Something entered the Earth off Antarctica and left it south of India

[Turanil]

Hoping for a UFO story ...science instead.

Hehehehe...

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

And here I thought it would be a twin to the Tunguska meteorite/black hole/nuclear event/UFO crash.

 

[Dirigible]

Funny. I always thought that strange quarks were supposed to convert all other matter to strange quarks.

 

[Umbran]

Funny. I always thought that strange quarks were supposed to convert all other matter to strange quarks.

No, not in the least. In the physics community, anything that contains strage quarks is referred to as "strange matter", but it's like calling something "wet". If you are wet, you aren't suddenly all converted to water.

Truth be told, they can't do that, energetically speaking. Strange quarks are heavier than the Up and Down quarks seen in normal matter. In order to convert them, they'd have to gain mass - that means you'd need a source of energy.