Sunday, June 8, 2014

Physicists Pave the Way to Turn Light into Matter

Physicists Pave the Way to Turn Light into Matter:

This artist's conception shows two photons (in green) colliding. Image Credit: ATLAS / LHC

This artist’s conception shows two photons (in green) colliding. Image Credit: ATLAS / LHC
E = mc². It’s one of the most basic and fundamental equations throughout astrophysics. But it does more than suggest that mass and energy are interconnected, it implies that light can be physically transformed into matter.

But can it really — physically — be done? Scientists proposed the theory more than 80 years ago, but only today have they paved the way to make this transformation routinely on Earth.

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