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Re:New form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table by princekolt on Friday June 15, 2018 @08:02PM (#17324823)
The comments on the article poked at this question but the answers given there were not very clear for me, so I'll ask here: If this udQM is so stable, why didn't we find any of it in nature so far?

We certainly would know we don't understand this matter if we stumbled upon it... right?

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Re:New form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table by Isinlor on Sunday June 17, 2018 @06:59AM (#17331837)
We actually might have already stumbled upon it: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2017/03/28/the-challenges-of...
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Re:New form of matter may lie just beyond the periodic table by teilo on Saturday June 16, 2018 @12:37PM (#17328093)
Because it would be in such small and diffuse quantities that unless we were specifically looking for it, we likely wouldn't find it.

As for stumbling upon it, all our measurement techniques are calibrated to hadronic matter, so...

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