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Physicists Designed an Experiment to Turn Light Into Matter::It would be a tangible demonstration of Einstein's famous E = mc^2 equation.

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 9 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Plasma could be wrangled to collide photons and yield matter, according to physicists who ran simulations to explore the practical applications of a world-famous equation.

“We feel that our proposal is experimentally feasible, and we look forward to real-world implementation,” said Alexey Arefiev, a physicist at UC San Diego and co-author of the paper, in a University of Osaka release.

In 2021, a different team of researchers suggested that the cores of neutron stars, extremely dense end-stages of stellar life, could be a venue for a similar dynamic, by which dark matter particles could convert into photons.

Spinning neutron stars are called pulsars, and their high-energy environment is where matter may be generated from light.

Pulsars can spin thousands of times per second, emit gamma-rays, and have some of the strongest-known magnetic fields, according to NASA.

The experiment could provide a way to peer into the universe’s composition, by bringing some far-out physics much closer to home.


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