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Now, there is a possibility that strange quarks, providing as they do the possibility for strange hadrons to occupy lower energy levels that are no longer available to protons and neutrons in heavy nuclei, may stabilize those heavy nuclei, forming so-called “strangelets”. If that is true, then it may also be possible that such strangelets would be capable of low-temperature fusion with other normal nuclei, producing ever larger agglomerations of stable nuclear matter. Given that cosmic rays are striking our planet all the time with far more energy than we can produce in particle accelerators and producing all kinds of exotic particles, however, it would seem that that final hypothesis is extremely unlikely, as we would otherwise expect the Earth to have been converted into a teeny ball of strange nuclear matter by now if it were possible.

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