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962677 No.962677 [Reply] [Original]

So, we've discovered ways to transform matter into energy (nuclear power, etc)? But is it possible to turn energy into matter?

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>> No.962697

Cetrainly

>> No.962695

Why the fuck would you ever wanna do that?

>> No.962705

just like in star trek, they turn energy into earl grey tea hot.

>> No.962710

>>962695
Experimentally, to verify scientific principles..

>> No.962724

>>962677
Not, yet, maybe one day soon

>> No.962727

>>962677

Yeah, in particle colliders, or even cyclotrons. Your change energy (usually momentum) into matter (that's why you get particle showers after crashing protons into things.

>> No.964682

yes divide mass by the speed of light squared

>> No.964687

isnt that how sagan made that ooze in a globe? with lightning pulses in a gas?

>> No.964695

derp de herp derp.

easily observable if you heat something like an iron bar up a lot and reweigh it,

>> No.964724

Why would we ever waste our time turning large quantities of energy into matter? A fistful of matter produced the Hiroshima explosion and it would take that much input energy to run the reaction in reverse. We've got an entire planet of matter, we need no more.

>> No.964744

>>962695
Awesomesauce batteries?

>> No.964746

>>964687

gas is matter

>> No.964773

Farts are poop particles in their gaseous state

>> No.964786

>>964724
actually infinitely more in reverse

in addition, there is no practical aspect to this
we want to produce energy, why would we want mass?

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964788

>>962727

Yup. We turn energy into matter/antimatter pairs, which almost instantly annihilate back into energy. Good times.

>> No.964800

>>964724
>>964786

One reason to create matter is that you create an equal amount of antimatter in the process, and a matter/antimatter annihilation reaction produces a tremendous amount of energy (the same amount of energy used to create it). Matter and antimatter, then, are a tremendously dense way to store energy. So if you need a whole fuckton of energy in a small package (for, say, an interstellar spaceship) matter/antimatter is a good choice.

>> No.965016

black holes do it constantly

>> No.965093

in order to do that, you're going to need a herpatronic derpascope.

>> No.965113

they do turn energy into matter, the problem is that the new synthesized elements are unstable and only exists for fermi seconds before they break down into the more common and stable elements.

>> No.965119

What's a particle accelerator for?