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Physicists Designed an Experiment to Turn Light Into Matter (gizmodo.com)

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Physicists Designed an Experiment to Turn Light Into Matter::It would be a tangible demonstration of Einstein's famous E = mc^2 equation.

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[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's not practical given our current technology, but theoretically it could be in the (far) future, in a situation where energy is abundant but matter is not.

Which, admittedly, is likely gonna stay a very niche situation. Mass is the densest form of energy that we know of, after all.

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I also assume that if we get some exotic state of matter through this process and learn to extract energy at least 100x more effectively, this could become practucal for some applications