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Concentration of Energy?

Can energy be concentrated so that it can give rise to matter?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Most famous energy mass conversion was given by Albert Eisenstein. He postulates that light velocity can be use as energy mass conversion factor. His relation is E=mc^2. This is proved in ITER's artificial Big-Bang experiments. This formula concentrates energy into mass.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes its possible.

    It happens all the time. Particle accelerators convert energy into subatomic particles, for example by colliding electrons and positrons. Some of the kinetic energy in the collision goes into creating new particles.

    It's not possible, however, to collect these newly created particles and assemble them into atoms, molecules and bigger (less microscopic) structures that we associate with 'matter' in our daily life. This is partly because in a technical sense, you cannot just create matter out of energy: there are various 'conservation laws' of electric charges, the number of leptons (electron-like particles) etc., which means that you can only create matter / anti-matter pairs out of energy. Anti-matter, however, has the unfortunate tendency to combine with matter and turn itself back into energy. Even though physicists have managed to safely trap a small amount of anti-matter using magnetic fields, this is not easy to do.

    Also, Einstein's equation, Energy = Mass x the square of the velocity of light, tells you that it takes a huge amount of energy to create matter in this way. The big accelerator at Fermilab can be a significant drain on the electricity grid in and around the city of Chicago, and it has produced very little matter.

    Source(s): Koji Mukai,David Palmer, Andy Ptak and Paul Butterworth
  • Zardoz
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    No.

    E=mc^2 regards mass, not matter. Matter does not turn into energy nor energy to matter. Matter is not concentrated energy.

    Energy is an accounting of the conservation of excitations of matter (spin-1/2) fields and gauge (integer spin) fields limiting the configuration from T1 to T2.

    E=mc^2 is a conversion factor, not a recipe.

    Try to locate the missing >matter< in a fusion reaction?

    1H + 1H = 2H + (e+) + v neutrino;

    2H + 1H = 3He + gamma photon

    3He + 3He = 4He + 2(1H)

    The mass has changed, but the matter is all accounted for.

    Edit: Matter is never, ever, ever created. Virtual particles emerge from preexisting matter fields. Energy is not a substance to be concentrated as the ether or caloric were assumed to be.

  • 1 decade ago

    Lightning is a sufficient concentration of energy to create electron-positron pairs, leading sensationalist journalists to write about how lightning shoots out anti-matter into space!

    The more energy you concentrate, the bigger the particles you can create.

    Just remember that

    E = m c^2

    If you want to create particles with lots of mass "m" then you need more Energy "E".

    c is a constant that simply makes the units work out. It just so happens that if you use kilograms for the mass and Joules for the energy, then c turns out to be the speed of light.

    If you decide to use other units, then you may need to figure out what the constant needs to be.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Of course. This happens all the time. Virtual pair generation is the cause of, for instance, Hawking radiation.

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