{"id":514,"date":"2002-11-22T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2002-11-23T06:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=514"},"modified":"2002-11-22T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2002-11-23T06:38:12","slug":"did-quark-matter-strike-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Did Quark Matter Strike Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geology.smu.edu\/~dpa-www\/sqm\/\">Researchers looking for evidence<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de\/~gerland\/stoecker\/ger\/node16.html\">strange quark matter<\/a> have identified seismic events that might indicate the <a title=\"BBC NEWS | Science\/Nature | Did quark matter strike Earth?\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/2502755.stm\">passage of strange quark matter through the Earth<\/a>. One event occurred on 22 October, 1993, when, according to the researchers, something entered the Earth off Antarctica and left it south of India 0.73 of a second later. The other occurred on 24 November, 1993, when an object entered south of Australia and exited the Earth near Antarctica 0.15 of a second later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers looking for evidence of strange quark matter have identified seismic events that might indicate the passage of strange quark matter through the Earth. One event occurred on 22 October, 1993, when, according to the researchers, something entered the Earth off Antarctica and left it south of India 0.73 of a second later. The other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}