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Could there be a bizarre exotic type of star out there made of quarks? What would these things be like and how could they form? Join us as we explore quark stars, and the terrifying implications they have for forging strange matter within their cores...

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MUSIC
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0:00: A Slowly Lifting Fog - Brad Hill
3:44: Unhurried - Unkown
5:12: Music From Neptune Flux 04 - Chris Zabriskie
8:05: World of Wonder - Unknown
9:42: Falls - Life in Binary
14:08: Chasing Out the Chaos - Unknown
16:00: Cylinder Seven - Chris Zabriskie
23:22: Y - Joachim Heinrich

CHAPTERS
0:00 Prologue
0:30 Neutron Stars
5:06 Quark Stars
8:09 NordVPN
9:43 Evidence for Quark Stars
12:12 Why They're Probably Real
15:50 Strange Matter Hypothesis
22:08 Is Strange Matter Real?
24:55 Outro & Credits

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