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It should be statet that Tiberium in C&C universe is an equivalent to strangelets, despite the difference in name it is describbed to have exactly the same properties.Kubatoja2 (talk) 08:51, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Plausibility

I have a couple questions about the "scare" scenario involving strangelets:

1. Is it really plausible that stranglets would turn every object they contact into strange matter? It would seem to me that if the conversion rate was slow enough, the stranglet would initially acquire enough mass to begin falling toward the center of the earth. It would continue falling in this direction and acquiring mass (at a presumably slow rate) until it reached the center of the earth. Once it was here, it is not clear to me that it would continue to gain mass indefinitely, or even at a sufficiently fast rate to be scary.

2. Suppose the above scenario does happen, and a stranglet inhabits the center of the earth. Could we tell with modern experiments? That is, does this lead to predictions that differ from current models of the core of the earth?

Thanks. 70.247.173.254 (talk) 07:48, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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 It should be statet that Tiberium in C&C universe is an equivalent to strangelets, despite the difference in name it is describbed to have exactly the same properties.[[User:Kubatoja2|Kubatoja2]] ([[User talk:Kubatoja2|talk]]) 08:51, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
+== Plausibility ==
+I have a couple questions about the "scare" scenario involving strangelets:
+. Is it really plausible that stranglets would turn every object they contact into strange matter?  It would seem to me that if the conversion rate was slow enough, the stranglet would initially acquire enough mass to begin falling toward the center of the earth.  It would continue falling in this direction and acquiring mass (at a presumably slow rate) until it reached the center of the earth.  Once it was here, it is not clear to me that it would continue to gain mass indefinitely, or even at a sufficiently fast rate to be scary.
+. Suppose the above scenario does happen, and a stranglet inhabits the center of the earth.  Could we tell with modern experiments?  That is, does this lead to predictions that differ from current models of the core of the earth?
+Thanks.  [[Special:Contributions/70.247.173.254|70.247.173.254]] ([[User talk:70.247.173.254|talk]]) 07:48, 25 July 2012 (UTC)