{"id":77070,"date":"2018-03-21T14:22:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/physicists-are-about-to-attempt-the-impossible-turning-light-into-matter"},"modified":"2018-03-21T14:22:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:22:45","slug":"physicists-are-about-to-attempt-the-impossible-turning-light-into-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/physicists-are-about-to-attempt-the-impossible-turning-light-into-matter","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Are About to Attempt The \u2018Impossible\u2019 \u2014 Turning Light Into Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-are-about-to-attempt-the-impossible-turning-light-into-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Theoretically, it should be possible to turn light into matter. In practice, well \u2014 \u201ceasier said than done\u201d is an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>Now, 84 years after the process was first theorised, some researchers reckon they\u2019re going to be able to do it \u2014 and they\u2019re about to start the experiment.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called the Breit-Wheeler process, and it all has to do with E=mc.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/light-into-matter-breit-wheeler-process-hohlraum-experiment-start-2018\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/light-into-matter-breit-wheeler...start-2018<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretically, it should be possible to turn light into matter. In practice, well \u2014 \u201ceasier said than done\u201d is an understatement. Now, 84 years after the process was first theorised, some researchers reckon they\u2019re going to be able to do it \u2014 and they\u2019re about to start the experiment. It\u2019s called the Breit-Wheeler process, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77070","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}