There has been the following major progress in three fields which makes Witten's idea of two phases of baryonic matter relevant: normal nuclear matter and strange matter. (1) It is generally believed that string theory has no observable consequence. A bound for shear viscosity/entropy density was conjectured from a string-like field theory by Kovtun, Son and Starinet. Fouxon, Betschart and Bekenstein have shown that the bound for shearviscosity/entropy density is valid for many other cases like liquid nitrogen, helium etc. We also show that for pion gas this bound gets saturated at about T = 80 MeV where the cosmic separation of phases sets in and which implies partial chiral symmetry restoration as will be explained in the talk.(2) Ultra high energy cosmic rays as seen by the Pierre Auger set up in Argentina can be explained by strange antimatter according to the model of Zhitnitsky and Lawson.(3) Very precise determination of heavy neutron star masses can be explained by strange quark stars. This may be seen in the recent Nature paper by Demorest et al. where from Shapiro delay a very precise mass of M_star ~ 1.97 M_sun is found.