Quark Stars: Have We Finally Proved Their Existence?

Explore the universe's mysterious quark stars! Learn how these exotic objects, composed of free quarks, could reveal secrets about gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and the very origins of our cosmos.

[anthonybraden]

I see you neutron star. I, too, am incredibly dense.

[braddofner]

I swear you have more channels than I have ever thought one person could possible handle. You are insane. Mad respect!

[konradvondusseldorf]

I didn't know this channel existed yet was somehow subscribed... Happy days I have a Whistler backlog to get through!!

[Jayjay-qeum]

The Joan Pearce Research Associates noted in their initial report on the names and terms used in the DS9 pilot script that the word "Quark" was coined by Murray Gell-Mann "to denote a theoretrical particle." Gell-Mann actually borrowed the word from James Joyce's 1939 novel Finnegans Wake: "Three quarks for Muster Mark."

[nolananderson]

I feel like the comparison to Tsar Bomba doesn't really do 10^47 Joules justice. It would take the Sun about 8 trillion years to put out that much energy, which is about 600X the age of the universe

[apollorcthebard]

Honestly, I just wanna work at these space research institutions. Even if I was just a custodian, it'd feel like I was actually doing something important compared to most of the opportunities currently available to me and most others.

[mrs.g]

❤Out of ALL of your channel's THIS one is truly AWESOME!
Thank you.

[Nathan-vtjz]

It’s hard to even imagine such an object.

[BanaGhoo]

this video makes a lot of sence, so much it should be adviced by school teachers to implement this information as an educational information

[Jason-vnxj]

The fact that we're about to lose Chandra with no replacement even on an appropriations list, much less being designed and built, means we are about to lose a full generation of X-ray astronomy. Budding astronomers in undergrad right now will be retired before they see a new X-ray telescope in space.

We never run out of money for bombs or tax breaks for people with a billion dollars, though. Weird.

[jakebrown]

Not Simon calling me out for watching YouTube all night if I can’t fall asleep in the first 40 seconds 😂

[Flight_of_Icarus]

Neutron stars are amazing because they're essentially one enormous atom thats kilometers wide. Quark stars are absolutely insane because they're colossal particles that are also kilometers wide.

[AeronHale]

I always swear I am subbed to all of Simon's channels and then I find out there's another one I missed lmfao!

[asylumental]

Doing my part to help grow this channel

[ToastyNoneofyourbusiness]

You could do a whole episode about strange matter. True to its name, it is very strange.

[georgehill]

Perhaps it’s hard to find Quark stars because they’re hiding from the Odo stars.

[NathanDean]

LIGO is also operated by LSU Louisiana State University. The LIGO observatory in Livingston is only about 40 miles from LSU. Or it’s in the general area. Out in the country south east of Baton Rouge. The director of that one is an LSU physics professor.

[s_Quark]

confirmed. It's me, I'm a quark star.

[laurachapple]

If this were a CC or DtU video Simon would have been crying by the second paragraph because he didn't understand any of this.

[wlam]

So when does making obligatory comments for algorithmic purposes become a paid position? 😅😂