Yes, but not how you’re thinking of it. Particle accelerators are, to my knowledge, the only technology we have that does this, and it creates matter by getting really tiny amounts of matter going really quickly and then colliding that matter into other matter. The resulting particles of this collision, to my knowledge, are more massive than the input particles.
Any particle physicists feel free to correct me, though. My research is in quantum optics.
Yes. In a particle accelerator we add a lot of energy to some particles and smash them together. The result often has more mass (matter) than the sum of all of the input particles. That is matter made from energy.
yes, but very inefficiently. Mostly using a particle accelerator.
I’m talking few atoms at a time while costing million of dollar in energy cost. Essentially when quarks inside atom nucleus get pull apart through a high energy event, part of the energy that split them apart get convert into creating new quarks. So you never actually see “naked” unpaired quark for a very long period of time.
The other method of creating matter from energy is through virtual particle popping in and out of existence. Casmir effect basically. Mostly from vacuum fluctuation. But these particle and anti particle pair usually annihilate each other within a few pico-second, you cannot measure them directly but only measure their force effect. But I do remember there was an experiment that use electronic wave guide to simulate a mirror moving at relativistic speed oscillation. And they were able to produce photon of different energy level than the input photon. effectively creating a long lasting photon from vacuum fluctuation. I dont remember the exact research paper since i read it many years ago.
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Yes, but not how you’re thinking of it. Particle accelerators are, to my knowledge, the only technology we have that does this, and it creates matter by getting really tiny amounts of matter going really quickly and then colliding that matter into other matter. The resulting particles of this collision, to my knowledge, are more massive than the input particles.
Any particle physicists feel free to correct me, though. My research is in quantum optics.
Yes. In a particle accelerator we add a lot of energy to some particles and smash them together. The result often has more mass (matter) than the sum of all of the input particles. That is matter made from energy.
yes, but very inefficiently. Mostly using a particle accelerator.
I’m talking few atoms at a time while costing million of dollar in energy cost. Essentially when quarks inside atom nucleus get pull apart through a high energy event, part of the energy that split them apart get convert into creating new quarks. So you never actually see “naked” unpaired quark for a very long period of time.
The other method of creating matter from energy is through virtual particle popping in and out of existence. Casmir effect basically. Mostly from vacuum fluctuation. But these particle and anti particle pair usually annihilate each other within a few pico-second, you cannot measure them directly but only measure their force effect. But I do remember there was an experiment that use electronic wave guide to simulate a mirror moving at relativistic speed oscillation. And they were able to produce photon of different energy level than the input photon. effectively creating a long lasting photon from vacuum fluctuation. I dont remember the exact research paper since i read it many years ago.
Yes, it is done all the time at particle accelerators. That is exactly how we have created atoms of anti-hydrogen. It’s REALLY hard to do though, and as such the cost is billions of dollars per gram. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihydrogen#:~:text=.-,Production,%2C%20producing%20electron%2Dpositron%20pairs.