{"id":137907,"date":"2022-04-09T21:24:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-managed-to-take-pure-energy-and-create-matter-and-new-physics"},"modified":"2022-04-09T21:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T02:24:09","slug":"scientists-managed-to-take-pure-energy-and-create-matter-and-new-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-managed-to-take-pure-energy-and-create-matter-and-new-physics","title":{"rendered":"Scientists managed to take pure energy and create matter \u2014 and new physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-managed-to-take-pure-energy-and-create-matter-and-new-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>On his 143rd birthday, <\/strong><\/em><strong>Inverse<\/strong><em><strong> celebrates the world\u2019s most iconic physicist \u2014 and interrogates the myth of his genius. Welcome to <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/einstein-week-2022\"><em><strong>Einstein Week<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brandenburg is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/36273-theory-special-relativity.html#:~:text=Special%20relativity%20is%20an%20explanation, affects%20mass%2C%20time%20and%20space.&text=As%20an%20object%20approaches%20the, go%20faster%20than%20light%20travels.%20Show%20more%20Danielle%20Sedbrook%20Danielle%20Sedbrook%2011:41%20AM%20Feb%2028%20previous%20article%20Danielle%20Sedbrook%20Danielle%20Sedbrook%2012:00%20PM%20Feb%2028%20Daniel%20Brandenburg%20and%20Zhangbu%20Xu%20Interview%201:07:05:%20%22Everyone%20believed%20this%20process%20exists.%20And%20it's%20correct.%20But%20no%20one%20has%20ever%20been%20able%20to%20demonstrate,%20as%20we%20discussed,%20there%20is%20not%20enough%20energy%20there%20is%20not%20enough%20ways%20to%20actually%20make%20it%20happen.?%20Show%20more%20Danielle%20Sedbrook%20Danielle%20Sedbrook%204:36%20AM%20Feb%2028%20Rafael%20Alves%20Batista%20Interview%2021:19%20%20%E2%80%9CI%20don't%20think%20what%20they%20are%20measuring%20is%20anything%20that%20we%20can%20use%20as%20input.%20So%20it's%20not%20that%20it's%20advancing%20our%20knowledge%20directly.%20However,%20what%20they%20are%20doing%20needs%20to%20be%20done,%20because%20there%20might%20be%20some%20deviation%20of%20a%20prediction.%20For%20example,%20if%20this%20effect%20had%20not%20been%20observed,%20now%20and%20they%20know%20all%20the%20specs%20of%20their%20detector,%20you%20know,%20the%20effect%20should%20have%20been%20observed,%20but%20it%20was%20not.%20Does%20it%20mean%20the%20effects%20doesn't%20exist?%20So%20there%20might%20be%20a%20violation%20of%20the%20standard%20model%20or%20quantum%20electrodynamics%20are%20something%20that%20we%20use%20a%20basis?%20That's%20extremely%20important,%20but%20I%20don't%20see%20a%20direct%20connection,%20a%20direct%20astrophysical%20implication%20of%20this%20at%20the%20moment.%20 https:\/\/www.star.bnl.gov\/central\/collaboration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">STAR<\/a> collaboration, a group of more than 700 scientists from 15 countries who use BNL\u2019s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC (pronounced \u201cRick\u201d), to smash gold nuclei together at 99.995 percent the speed-of-light.<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.127.052302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">this experiment<\/a>, the researchers were more interested in the near misses than the hits. Ultra-high-energy photons encircle the gold nuclei like an aura, and auras collide as nuclei zoom past one another. When photons (particles of light; massless, pure energy) collide, they generate an electron and a positron, its antimatter counterpart \u2014 both particles that have a mass. This is known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/matter-from-light-physicists-create-matter-antimatter-by-colliding-just-photons\">Breit-Wheeler Process<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his 143rd birthday, Inverse celebrates the world\u2019s most iconic physicist \u2014 and interrogates the myth of his genius. Welcome to Einstein Week. Brandenburg is a member of the STAR collaboration, a group of more than 700 scientists from 15 countries who use BNL\u2019s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC (pronounced \u201cRick\u201d), to smash gold [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137907","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}