Normally we convert matter into energy, but in 2015, the year in CERN will try to do the opposite

Getting the matter of energy not for gorami

We all know the famous equation, invented by Albert Einstein, «E = mc2». This means that matter and energy are one and 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 for how to turn energy into matter. That has not happened, but Oliver Pike, the scientist who proposed the 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, we must find the right place to do it. For the experiment requires two powerful laser and vacuum conditions, but Pike said that some scientists are already interested in this 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 results in a dense field of X-ray photons inside.

Team Pike hoped that the flow of high-energy gamma-photon laser-heated through the cylinder is sufficient to produce in the course of clashes to 100 000 pairs of electrons and positrons.

via factroom.ru