Circa 2014
Scientists may soon create matter entirely from light, using technology that is already available to complete a quest 80 years in the making.
The experiment would re-create events that were critical in the first 100 seconds of the universe and that are also expected to happen in gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the cosmos and one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in physics, researchers added.
As Einstein’s famous equation E=mc proved, mass can get converted into energy and vice versa. For instance, when an electron meets its antimatter counterpart, a positron, they annihilate each other, releasing photons, the particles making up light.
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