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Physicists Are About to Attempt The 'Impossible' - Turning Light Into Matter
« on: March 21, 2018, 12:01:59 pm »

Physicists Are About to Attempt The 'Impossible' - Turning Light Into Matter

 E=mc2 becomes m=E/c2.
MICHELLE STARR
21 MAR 2018

Theoretically, it should be possible to turn light into matter. In practice, well - "easier said than done" is an understatement.

Now, 84 years after the process was first theorised, some researchers reckon they're going to be able to do it - and they're about to start the experiment.

It's called the Breit-Wheeler process, and it all has to do with E=mc2.

https://www.sciencealert.com/light-into-matter-breit-wheeler-process-hohlraum-experiment-start-2018
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Re: Physicists Are About to Attempt The 'Impossible' - Turning Light Into Matter
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2018, 08:34:03 pm »
That's already been done.
See the transporter on "Star Trek"...
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