{"id":87913,"date":"2019-02-18T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T23:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/turning-light-into-matter-may-soon-be-possible"},"modified":"2019-02-18T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T23:23:21","slug":"turning-light-into-matter-may-soon-be-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/turning-light-into-matter-may-soon-be-possible","title":{"rendered":"Turning Light into Matter May Soon Be Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/turning-light-into-matter-may-soon-be-possible2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2014<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists may soon create matter entirely from light, using technology that is already available to complete a quest 80 years in the making.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/34052-unsolved-mysteries-physics.html\">greatest unsolved mysteries in physics<\/a>, researchers added.<\/p>\n<p>As Einstein\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/45724-turning-light-into-matter.html\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/45724-turning-light-into-matter.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87913","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}