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Scientists Propose Collider That Could Turn Light Into Matter

An anonymous reader writes "Imperial College London physicists have discovered how to create matter from light — a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorized 80 years ago. From the article: 'A pair of researchers predicted a method for turning light into matter 80 years ago, and now a new team of scientists are proposing a technique that could make that method happen in the purest way yet. The proposed method involves colliding two photons — the massless particles of light — that have extremely high energies to transform them into two particles with mass, and researchers in the past have been able to prove that it works. But in replicating that old method, known as Breit–Wheeler pair production, they had to introduce particles that did have mass into the process. Imperial College London researchers, however, say that it's now possible to create a collider that only includes photons.'"

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  1. Re:Do it, then report it. by Jmc23 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    no, sounds more like the pus that comes out when I squeeze my sick and diseased Samzen.

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  2. Re:What element would it be? by Opportunist · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So... essentially we're researching how we can spend a lot of money to produce the most abundant element in the universe?

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