Strangelet - in Fiction

In Fiction

• An episode of Odyssey 5 featured an attempt to destroy the planet by intentionally creating negatively charged strangelets in a particle accelerator.
• The BBC docudrama End Day features a scenario where a particle accelerator in New York City explodes, creating a strangelet and starting a catastrophic chain reaction which destroys Earth.
• The story A Matter most Strange in the collection Indistinguishable from Magic by Robert L. Forward deals with the making of a strangelet in a particle accelerator.
• Impact, published in 2010 and written by Douglas Preston, deals with an alien machine that creates strangelets. The machine's strangelets impact the Earth and Moon and pass through.
• The novel Phobos, published in 2011 and written by Steve Alten as the third and final part of his Domain trilogy, shows a fictional story where strangelets are unintentionally created at the Large Hadron Collider and escape from it to destroy the Earth.
• In The Arwen, strangelets are used as a method to create a traversable wormhole.
• In the 1992 black-comedy novel Humans by Donald E. Westlake, an irritated God sends an angel to Earth to bring about Armageddon by means of using a strangelet created in a particle accelerator to convert the Earth into a quark star.
• In comic book The Hypernaturals, the manipulation of strangelets is described as the hypernatural power of Shoal to reinforce mass and find ways out from tight spots.
• In the 2010 film Quantum Apocalypse, a strangelet in space approaches earth.