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Large Hadron Collider Creates Matter From Light
SciTechDaily.com ^ | 06 September 2020

Posted on 09/07/2020 8:14:42 AM PDT by zeestephen

Last year, the ATLAS experiment at the LHC observed two photons, particles of light, ricocheting off one another and producing two new photons. This year, they've taken that research a step further and discovered photons merging and transforming into something even more interesting: W bosons, particles that carry the weak force, which governs nuclear decay.

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From the SciTechDaily article:

"This research doesn't just illustrate the central concept governing processes inside the LHC: that energy and matter are two sides of the same coin. It also confirms that at high enough energies, forces that seem separate in our everyday lives—electromagnetism and the weak force—are united.

1 posted on 09/07/2020 8:14:42 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

WOWHU! Halo deck next!


2 posted on 09/07/2020 8:15:43 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (These aren't my pants!)
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To: mad_as_he$$

>>WOWHU! Halo deck next!<<

Light sabers.


3 posted on 09/07/2020 8:17:11 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: freedumb2003

“Let there be light...”


4 posted on 09/07/2020 8:18:05 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: CondorFlight
“Let there be light...”

"Let there be drums...."

5 posted on 09/07/2020 8:18:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CondorFlight

Exactly. God knew what He was doing!


6 posted on 09/07/2020 8:20:54 AM PDT by livius
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To: zeestephen

E=mc2 — it’s a 2-edged sword.


7 posted on 09/07/2020 8:21:01 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: dfwgator

“Collider”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1eLe1ihT0


8 posted on 09/07/2020 8:22:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

>>E=mc2 — it’s a 2-edged sword.<<

If I read this article correctly, that equation may no longer be complete.


9 posted on 09/07/2020 8:23:09 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: zeestephen

10 posted on 09/07/2020 8:24:18 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: goldbux

You can use yer solar panels to 3D-print steaks, and then use the excess stored energy to cook them!


11 posted on 09/07/2020 8:25:53 AM PDT by goldbux (No sufficiently rich interpreted language can represent its own semantics. -- Alfred Tarski, 1936)
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To: rightwingcrazy

And God said, “Let there be light”, and there was light.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood [or overcome]it.”


12 posted on 09/07/2020 8:34:45 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: zeestephen

There’s that word again,heavy. Why are things so heavy in the future is there a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull?


13 posted on 09/07/2020 8:35:52 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: goldbux; AFPhys; AD from SpringBay; ADemocratNoMore; aimhigh; AnalogReigns; archy; ...
You can use yer solar panels to 3D-print steaks, and then use the excess stored energy to cook them!

3-D Printer Ping!

Or just have it very rare...

14 posted on 09/07/2020 8:40:16 AM PDT by null and void (The Left weaponizes everything in the service of tyranny.)
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To: zeestephen

If you want a black hole, this is how you get a black hole.


15 posted on 09/07/2020 8:41:16 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: zeestephen

Let there be stuff!


16 posted on 09/07/2020 8:54:39 AM PDT by matthew fuller (we're "blessed to have a leader" like Trump. Goya CEO)
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To: freedumb2003
If I read this article correctly, that equation [E = mc2] may no longer be complete.

Yes and no. E = mc2 explains mass-energy equivalence. Mass and energy are manifestation of the same physical property. Mass energy equivalence does not explain everything. The article is confusing. Photons are bosons, force carrying particles, but so are, surprisingly, W-bosons. The photons are the particles that carry the electromagnetic force, W- and Z- bosons carry the weak nuclear force (weak only in comparison to the strong nuclear force).

What they demonstrated was the conversion of photons into other particles. Particle-antiparticle annihilation (with intermediate steps to preserve energy and momentum) resulting in baryonic (particles with rest mass) conversion to photons is old hat. They went the other way and converted "massless" (having no rest mass) particles, photons, into "massive" (having rest mass) particles, W- bosons.

17 posted on 09/07/2020 8:57:46 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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To: dfwgator

“Guitar”?


18 posted on 09/07/2020 8:59:51 AM PDT by eyedigress (Joe, put your mask on!)
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To: CondorFlight

“Let there be light...”

Bingo!


19 posted on 09/07/2020 9:01:07 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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To: null and void
That's nothing, check this out!

Freshly printed and already asleep!

20 posted on 09/07/2020 9:04:07 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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