LDAS Monthly Meeting – “Quark Stars and Strange Matter”

Tonights talk will be given by Paul Fellows, Paul is the Chair of Cambridge Astronomical Association and gives weekly public sky tours/lecture presentations through the year with audiences of 200 plus. He built his first 8” Newtonian telescope at the age of 14 in 1975 as the project for “o-level” astronomy before coming to Cambridge as an undergraduate to study Natural Science and then completed his second degree in Computer Science.

The story of collapsing stars is often said to go from neutron stars directly to black holes, but there could be a number of intermediate steps where the structure of matter becomes one of quark soup. In this talk we take a look at the theory and the possibly evidence for such Quark stars – and compare them with the most dangerous material thought possible – the strangelet.

There will be a break for refreshments followed by an astronomy news update from Gordon Ewen.

Members £2, non members £3 which includes refreshments.