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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.'"
we have an army of bald guys scrubbing plasma conduits on waste transfer barges?
Dudes, you are solving the problem, in reverse: we want instant energy from dirt.
Table-ized A.I.
Aren't you supposed to "make light of the matter", and not the other way around?
No matter the result, they'll surely be able to make grant money go poof at the speed of light.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Good to see. The analogy to theoretical physics I use is, it's the difference between Imagining you are getting laid to getting laid.
I don't really use that analogy, it just occured to me and now i am sad.
Or do you want to be stuck on earth where 50% of the population are morons?
Fixed that for you.
Regards,
The other 50%