The universe is filled with so many strange and exotic objects and events, and it seems that more and more of these objects and events are discovered every so often nowadays.

One such strange and exotic object is a hypthetical type of a star that's called a quark star. The matter of a quark star is supposed to be composed of some sort of strange quarks. This matter is an ultra-dense phase of matter theorized to form inside an extremely massive neutron star. The theory says that when the neutronium that makes up a neutron star is put under sufficient pressure due to the star's gravity, the individual neutrons break down and their constituent quarks form the strange quark matter. This strange matter is composed of strange quarks that are bound to each other directly, in a similar manner to how neutronium is composed of neutrons; a quark star could be called an enormous nucleon! If the existance of these hypothetical quark stars are confirmed, then their mass and density would place them somewhere between a neutron star and a black hole.

One such star is the known neutron star RJX J185635-375. It is hypothesized that this object is actually a quark star instead of a neutron star.

I remember hearing about this quark star theory awhile back, but I just recently remembered them and decided to do some searching for more information about this unusual hypothetical object.


RJX J185635-375

Picture source: NASA

Picture credit: M. van Kerkwijk (Institute of Astronomy, Utrecht), S. Kulkarni (Caltech), VLT Kueyen, ESO

As our ability see futher into space we will find more stange and wonderful things. As I browse through texts and watch science programs I'm left wondering our we looking to far for some of the answers were looking for? I cant help seeing lots of resemblance's to the research in quontum physics. It maybe that some of the laws in quontum physics could also apply in outer space or even vise versa. Which makes me think should both sciences get together and exchange thier findings to see what resemblances there are.

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> As our ability see futher into space we will find more stange and wonderful
> things. As I browse through texts and watch science programs I'm left
> wondering our we looking to far for some of the answers were looking for? I
> cant help seeing lots of resemblance's to the research in quontum physics. It
> maybe that some of the laws in quontum physics could also apply in outer space
> or even vise versa. Which makes me think should both sciences get together and
> exchange thier findings to see what resemblances there are.
>

Hmm, well the idea of quantum physics is that it's supposed to be applied everywhere in the known universe. However, quantum mechanics (the fundamental theory) will really be able to be COMPLETE when the quantum mechanical theory integrates one very important but missing element, an elusive particle known as the graviton, and particle physicists find the dubious Higgs boson and prove the Higgs Field.