I’m going to try this in my bathroom before work this am. Will let you know how much energy I produce.
At this point what does it matter?
"Despite all physicists accepting the theory to be true, when Breit and Wheeler first proposed the theory, they said that they never expected it be shown in the laboratory. Today, nearly 80 years later, we prove them wrong. What was so surprising to us was the discovery of how we can create matter directly from light using the technology that we have today in the UK. As we are theorists we are now talking to others who can use our ideas to undertake this landmark experiment."
All this based on some scribbled equations on the back of a napkin at some nondescript coffee shop. How can anyone take science seriously when these types of claims are published?
Another dumb article with a lying headline.
They have not “discovered” how to create matter from light.
They have come up with a theory. They plan to do an experiment.
My prediction: they will try an experiment. They will announce to the world that they have created matter from light, and the papers will all start crowing about “finding out the secrets of the universe.”
6 months later a small article in a learned science journal will inform us that the conclusion is unwarranted. There will be nothing in the papers.
Oh great. Now I have to wash the bugs off of my windshield and the matter deposited by oncoming headlights.
Misleading headline.
The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Don’t these scientists know the science is settled? Once the debate is over there is no need to ever continue testing theories. Consensus you know.