Re: ASTRONOMY: A Quark Star?

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 18:06:27 MDT

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    I once emailed Hans Moravec (back on April 2002) to get his reaction, if a
    quark star would have even more massive computing power than his conception of a
    neutron star, that utilized neutronium. I never received a reply and decided
    that Professor Moravec is a busy guy and dropped the question. Anyone here
    have any hand-waving guesses if a quark start converted to a computer, would be a
    candidate for massively, hyper-computing, worse, no difference?

    Mitch

    Dr. Sandberg stated:
    <<I sincerely hope it isn't a quark star. Because if it is, then strange
    matter is stable at zero pressure, and that means that planet-gobbling
    strangelets are possible. On the other hand, it may also mean quark
    matter computers are possible.

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