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CERN will try to convert energy into matter
In 2015, the year in CERN will try to convert energy into matter
We all know the famous equation, invented by Albert Einstein, «E = mc2». This means that the matter and energy is the same, and that matter and energy can be converted to both forward and backward. We see it all the time, since gasoline and up to atomic bombs.
But we see only one side of the equation: the transformation of matter into energy. Now there's a plan to transform energy into matter. This has not yet happened, but Oliver Pike, scientist, proposed an experiment, hoping that this will happen in 2015. Although this has never been done before in the lab, a process thought to be simple.
Scientists plan to split photons, as well as they do in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. However, it should find the right place to do it. For the experiment requires two powerful laser and vacuum conditions, but Pike says that some scientists are already interested in it and want to try it, so that the search for the right place should not take too long.
The entire project is an experiment based on a small metal cylinder, which usually contains hydrogen fuel used in experiments on laser fusion. Heating cylinder laser leads to a dense field of X-ray photons inside.
Soldering team hopes that the flow of high-energy gamma-ray photons through the laser heated cylinder is sufficient to produce in the course of the collision to 100 000 pairs of electrons and positrons.
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We all know the famous equation, invented by Albert Einstein, «E = mc2». This means that the matter and energy is the same, and that matter and energy can be converted to both forward and backward. We see it all the time, since gasoline and up to atomic bombs.
But we see only one side of the equation: the transformation of matter into energy. Now there's a plan to transform energy into matter. This has not yet happened, but Oliver Pike, scientist, proposed an experiment, hoping that this will happen in 2015. Although this has never been done before in the lab, a process thought to be simple.
Scientists plan to split photons, as well as they do in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. However, it should find the right place to do it. For the experiment requires two powerful laser and vacuum conditions, but Pike says that some scientists are already interested in it and want to try it, so that the search for the right place should not take too long.
The entire project is an experiment based on a small metal cylinder, which usually contains hydrogen fuel used in experiments on laser fusion. Heating cylinder laser leads to a dense field of X-ray photons inside.
Soldering team hopes that the flow of high-energy gamma-ray photons through the laser heated cylinder is sufficient to produce in the course of the collision to 100 000 pairs of electrons and positrons.
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