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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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To: zeestephen

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


21 posted on 09/07/2020 9:06:25 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: Still Thinking
Like so?


22 posted on 09/07/2020 9:10:59 AM PDT by null and void (The Left weaponizes everything in the service of tyranny.)
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To: CondorFlight

“Let there be mass...”


23 posted on 09/07/2020 9:11:28 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward time.")
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To: freedumb2003; rightwingcrazy
"e=mc2" has always been the incomplete form of the actual equation.

In reality, it's always been:

  1. For particles with mass (not photons!) and for speeds below the speed of light,
    E = γmc2
    where γ = 1 / √(1 - (v/c)2)
    where v = velocity relative to you, c = speed of light
     
  2. For all particles, at all speeds,
    E2 = (mc2)2 + (pc)2
    where p = momentum

Sorry, my HTML formulas stink...

24 posted on 09/07/2020 9:15:49 AM PDT by Yossarian
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To: null and void

I like my steak rare but that’s from REAL cows.


25 posted on 09/07/2020 9:18:39 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Life is anecdotal)
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To: zeestephen

Cool, I sez, whipping out my magnifying glass. Let’s make some gold!


26 posted on 09/07/2020 9:20:45 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
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.

Nice to have that cleared up...

27 posted on 09/07/2020 9:26:06 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black NFL players build mansions in white world to escape blacks - then kneel from guilt.)
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To: null and void

Exactly!


28 posted on 09/07/2020 9:31:42 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: zeestephen

29 posted on 09/07/2020 9:33:42 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: zeestephen

Plants do it continuously.


30 posted on 09/07/2020 9:37:45 AM PDT by blam
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To: goldbux

I read somewhere that burning 2000 tons of coal converts 1g of mass to energy. Yer gonna need a lot of solar panels.


31 posted on 09/07/2020 9:38:01 AM PDT by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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To: zeestephen

“Large Hadron Collider Creates Matter From Light”

Now we know. Being out in the sun makes you fat.


32 posted on 09/07/2020 9:38:40 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

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...


33 posted on 09/07/2020 9:40:17 AM PDT by null and void (The Left weaponizes everything in the service of tyranny.)
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To: Yossarian
"where γ = 1 / √(1 - (v/c)2)" Implying that a finite mass moving at a speed approaching the speed of light would have an energy approaching infinity. That's seems so unfair.
34 posted on 09/07/2020 9:40:43 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: mad_as_he$$

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?


35 posted on 09/07/2020 9:41:29 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: GOPJ
Nice to have that cleared up...

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.

36 posted on 09/07/2020 9:43:24 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: gnarledmaw

Go big!


37 posted on 09/07/2020 9:44:40 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (These aren't my pants!)
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To: BwanaNdege

Great. More stuff. Where are we gonna put it?


38 posted on 09/07/2020 9:52:50 AM PDT by montaine
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

>>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.


39 posted on 09/07/2020 9:56:29 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I love it when bosons mate.


40 posted on 09/07/2020 9:56:49 AM PDT by Defiant (I hope the Russians trick me into voting for Trump again in 2020.)
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