NASA photograph of a "free quark neutron star."
There's always something new out there and now it would seem
that the NASA
Chandra X-ray Observatory may have discovered a kind of matter we never knew existed.
It seems that, inside the core of some super-dense
neutron stars, there may be "free quarks" roaming about --something we didn't know they could do. (That makes them new
to us, and that's what matters.)
For those not intimately acquainted with "quarks," let
me add that they are thought to be very small elementary particles that make up the protons and neutrons of atoms (which in
turn make up the molecules that make up you and me who are now wondering what's going on and what it's all about).
Just thought you might like to know.
--- T.D.N.
