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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Matter and energy had ended and with it space and time. Even AC existed only for the sake of the one last question that it had never answered from the time a half-drunken computer [technician] ten trillion years before had asked the question of a computer that was to AC far less than was a man to Man. All other questions had been answered, and until this last question was answered also, AC might not release his consciousness.
All collected data had come to a final end. Nothing was left to be collected. But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships. A timeless interval was spent in doing that. And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question.
No matter. The answer — by demonstration — would take care of that, too. For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program. The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done. And AC said, “LET THERE BE LIGHT!” And there was light —
The Last Question’ by Isaac Asimov
https://templatetraining.princeton.edu/sites/training/files/the_last_question_-_issac_asimov.pdf
“Let there be mass...”
In reality, it's always been:
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I like my steak rare but that’s from REAL cows.
Cool, I sez, whipping out my magnifying glass. Let’s make some gold!
Nice to have that cleared up...
Exactly!
Plants do it continuously.
I read somewhere that burning 2000 tons of coal converts 1g of mass to energy. Yer gonna need a lot of solar panels.
“Large Hadron Collider Creates Matter From Light”
Now we know. Being out in the sun makes you fat.
I prefer from steers. By the time a milch cow gets old and worn out enough to be a meat cow, they’re best served as hamburger...
Pfft, halo deck. How about projecting an entire space armada to the next galaxy over as a beam of light and having it coalesce around the home planet of the myconid threat and as soon as we level their spore beds we beam entire cities to the surface?
I was worried about that. Maybe I should have said that conversion of stuff into light had already been demonstrated. In this experiment they converted light into stuff.
There may be a Second Law (of Thermodynamics, of course) thing going on. Stuff has less entropy than light. It's much, much easier to start a fire, than reassemble the ash, heat, and light back into their prior form.
Go big!
Great. More stuff. Where are we gonna put it?
>>hey went the other way and converted “massless” (having no rest mass) particles, photons, into “massive” (having rest mass) particles, W- bosons.<<
I am no physicist but I understand enough to know that they may have to completely recast how energy works.
This is not “something out of nothing” but as close as we can get.
Too bad only our great- great- great grandchildren will get free energy from it.
Unless the democrats call it “quantum change” and protest against it.
I love it when bosons mate.
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