Seeing 'Strange' Stars

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Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.

I thought it was altogether another kind of objects, neutron star on one side and quark stars on the other. It would make sense since the density is not the same, and diameter as well as physical properties differ as well.

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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Yeah, I saw that article when I was browsing the index. Here's the abstract. Here's the summary from the AIP's Physics News Update. It's interesting that the abstract is much less sanguine about the existence of quark stars than the Physorg link implies, referring to them as "hypothetical compact stars which could exist if strange quark matter was absolutely stable."

Actually the thing that initially caught my eye was the title of the paper, "Strange Star Surface: A Crust with Nuggets." For a second I thought Mike Mozina had managed to get a paper into PRL. Then I read the abstract and breathed a sigh of relief.

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"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind." - William Thompson, 1st Baron Lord Kelvin

"If it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be, but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" - Tweedledee

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli

One could be excused for expecting the strange star's radiation or effect on passing radiation to have a spectrum distinguishable from "ordinary" neutron stars. The sonoluminescence effects alone should be distinguishably characteristic due to the different expected densities and the effect of density on the speed of sound.

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For those inclined to oppose human meddling with the structure of the universe or the composition and configuration of objects and groups of objects within the universe, consider:
Whether there is a limit to the magnitude of a modulation of chaos below which order remains invariant? Or, is order but a fiction invented by perspectives applied over finite, however large, time intervals?

So if you dropped just one ounce more on it--it would become a BH?