I Is the Strange Star's Composition Similar to a Bose-Einstein Condensate?

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The discussion centers on the composition of strange stars and their potential similarity to Bose-Einstein condensates. It is noted that many quarks in these stars convert to strange quarks, which may circumvent the Pauli exclusion principle. However, participants argue that since quarks are fermions and not bosons, they cannot form a Bose-Einstein condensate. The conversion to strange quarks increases the variety of quarks, allowing them to occupy the same space without interference. Ultimately, the consensus is that strange stars do not resemble Bose-Einstein condensates due to the fundamental differences in particle types.
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So at 5:20 it is explained that many of the quarks are converted to strange quarks and this is a away of going around the pauli exlusion principle inside of a quark star.



So does this mean it's like a Bose Einstien Condensate? The Bose Einstein Condensate is very cold though.
 
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FallenApple said:
So does this mean it's like a Bose Einstien Condensate?

I don't think so. Quarks are fermions, not bosons, so I can't immediately see how you could get a Bose-Einstein condensate.

In the video they say that the conversion of some of the quarks to strange quarks simply makes more room since you have 3 types of quarks instead of 2. As far as I know, particles that differ in type can occupy the same place since they don't interfere with each other.
 

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