ChatterBank0 min ago
Particle Accelerator
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.remember the equation e=mc^2? this means that if one gram of mass is converted into energy, 90000000000000 J of energy is produced (as c is the speed of light in a vacuum, 3000000000m/s)
it also works in the opposite way - large amounts of energy can form into particles, somehow - not exactly sure how because it's way above the level of what i'm currently studying, although it has been proven.
Try not to think of Energy and matter as seperate but as different faces of the same thing.
You know how in an atomic bomb matter is "distroyed" and energy is produced, well when enegetic particles collide the energy they've gained in the accelerator can be converted to into matter in the reverse manner.
In fact it's not just particle collisions one group managed to create particles by colliding electrons with light from a high power laser.