{"id":112632,"date":"2020-09-07T04:23:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T11:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/large-hadron-collider-creates-matter-from-light"},"modified":"2020-09-07T04:23:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T11:23:13","slug":"large-hadron-collider-creates-matter-from-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/large-hadron-collider-creates-matter-from-light","title":{"rendered":"Large Hadron Collider Creates Matter From Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/large-hadron-collider-creates-matter-from-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientists on an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider see massive W particles emerging from collisions with electromagnetic fields. How can this happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Large Hadron Collider plays with Albert Einstein\u2019s famous equation, E = mc\u00b2, to transform matter into energy and then back into different forms of matter. But on rare occasions, it can skip the first step and collide pure energy\u2014in the form of electromagnetic waves.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the ATLAS experiment at the LHC observed two photons, particles of light, ricocheting off one another and producing two new photons. This year, they\u2019ve taken that research a step further and discovered photons merging and transforming into something even more interesting: W bosons, particles that carry the weak force, which governs nuclear decay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists on an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider see massive W particles emerging from collisions with electromagnetic fields. How can this happen? The Large Hadron Collider plays with Albert Einstein\u2019s famous equation, E = mc\u00b2, to transform matter into energy and then back into different forms of matter. But on rare occasions, it can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}