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^That's my knowledge as well, suiraM, with one slight exception. The one unlikely strangelet theory, there is some hypothesis that that interaction has happened already, but that is happens far from earth. In that case, it would be created with a charge, but it has ample time to somehow decay to a neutral state before encountering any earth-bound matter. This hypothesis goes that if strange particles were created in the LHC, they would be negatively charged and not have time to decay to a neutral state, and would therefore be MUCH more likely to encounter a positively-charged nucleus since it's so close to normal matter. That's really the only thing I've heard/read that makes it any different than what already happens in space or the upper atmosphere.