>>10982156Quarks don't like to be on their own. It takes so much energy to separate two quarks that splitting them creates a new pair of quarks unless you can get them hot enough where you just have a plasma full of streaming quarks and gluons.
When the LHC smashes two atoms together they're creating QGP for a split second. As it cools the energy condenses into various high energy particles which decay into lower energy/more stable particles, at a point shortly after the big bang the entire universe was in a QGP.
Strange matter is most familiar to me in theoretical exotic stars. You can theoretically have stars more massive than neutron stars but less dense than a black hole.
Theres a thing called the pauli exclusion principle which says that you can't have two of the same particle cohabitating the same space which gives us the neutron degeneracy pressure. One way to increase the density is to change some of the quarks to strange quarks so you can fit more matter in the same volume.
You can increase this density even farther by using different degeneracy pressure to make weirder forms of matter..
