Definitions

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  • noun A charged soliton that represents the lowest possible energy state of its components and is therefore stable.

Etymologies

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Q (“charge”) +‎ ball, coined by physicist Sidney Coleman.

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Examples

  • Oddly enough, he and Q-ball seemed to be growing a friendship.

    Who Do You Say I Am 2010

  • Essentially-the theory is that a "Q-ball" of dark matter has destabilized the sun(it's a theory by one of the science advisors to the film) causing the sun to become weak and thus, earth starts to freeze(not much time is spent on this, it's backstory).

    If you think it's hot out.... Zillabob 2007

  • Essentially-the theory is that a "Q-ball" of dark matter has destabilized the sun(it's a theory by one of the science advisors to the film) causing the sun to become weak and thus, earth starts to freeze(not much time is spent on this, it's backstory).

    Archive 2007-08-01 Zillabob 2007

  • I would have liked some explanation of how a bomb with the mass of Manhattan could kick-start the Sun - I know from background reading that the Sun in the film has become afflicted with an exotic particle called a `Q-ball' and that the bomb would sort this out, but they might have mentioned it in the movie.

    September 5th, 2007 2007

  • Seroquel, an atypical antipsychotic familiar to psychiatrists as a treatment for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known on the streets as quell, Suzie Q, baby heroin, and, when combined with cocaine, a Q-ball.

    Student Doctor Network 2008

  • Seroquel, an atypical antipsychotic familiar to psychiatrists as a treatment for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known on the streets as quell, Suzie Q, baby heroin, and, when combined with cocaine, a Q-ball.

    Student Doctor Network 2008

  • Well, the latest in a well-established widely reported string of evidences and exhibits shows, as it turns out, that the whole 'Al Q-ball' thing is only a CIA prop, a 'strawman' group to frame-up as a scapegoat, and there really is no terrorists at all and certainly no threat to Americans ... just some (UStaxpayer-paid) CIA-paid actors dressed up in desert costumes from Wardrobe and face-painted in Make-up, bused in to staged areas for jumping around shouting and looking fierce in front of CIA-propaganda cameras.

    Spook spotlight (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Dreaming Again : Riding On the Q-ball - ROSALEEN LOVE

    Archive 2008-08-01 Blue Tyson 2008

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