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.
(Excerpt) Read more at scitechdaily.com ...
"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.
WOWHU! Halo deck next!
>>WOWHU! Halo deck next!<<
Light sabers.
“Let there be light...”
"Let there be drums...."
Exactly. God knew what He was doing!
E=mc2 — it’s a 2-edged sword.
“Collider”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1eLe1ihT0
>>E=mc2 — it’s a 2-edged sword.<<
If I read this article correctly, that equation may no longer be complete.
You can use yer solar panels to 3D-print steaks, and then use the excess stored energy to cook them!
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.”
There’s that word again,heavy. Why are things so heavy in the future is there a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull?
3-D Printer Ping!
Or just have it very rare...
If you want a black hole, this is how you get a black hole.
Let there be stuff!
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.
“Guitar”?
“Let there be light...”
Bingo!
Freshly printed and already asleep!
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