Friday, Jan 27, 2006

Professor Fridolin Weber,

Dept of Physics, SDSU,

"Cosmic Cannibals"

2:00 pm in room P-148

Abstract: Quarks are elementary particles - pieces of matter that (probably) cannot be divided into anything smaller.  The protons and neutrons of normal matter in the everyday world are made of two types of quarks - called up and down.  Some theorists have suggested that so-called strange matter - composed of up, down, and strange quarks - may have been formed in the early Universe, and that remnants of this matter may still exist. The consequences of this could be quite dramatic, as discussed in this talk.