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Steven
Quoting wikipedia here (not necessarily the best scientific adviser):
"It is theorized that when the neutron-degenerate matter which makes up a neutron star is put under sufficient pressure due to the star's gravity, the individual neutrons break down into their constituent quarks, up quarks and down quarks. Some of these quarks may then become strange quarks and form strange matter. The star then becomes known as a "quark star" or "strange star", similar to a single gigantic hadron (but bound by gravity rather than the strong force). Quark matter/strange matter is one candidate for the theoretical dark matter that is a feature of several cosmological theories."
So given that protons and neutron are varieties of hadrons, does that potentially make a quark star just one great big neutron?
Interesting stuff in your link Steven,
Thanks for that
Stuart
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