Turning light interactions into matter, maybe yet:

http://phys.org/news/2014-05-scientists-year-quest.html

They see the way to do it experimentally now, 80 years after it was predicted by Wheeler and his bunch back in 1934. Not done as of yet but they think it possible with present day tools.

Originally posted by sonhouse
http://phys.org/news/2014-05-scientists-year-quest.html

They see the way to do it experimentally now, 80 years after it was predicted by Wheeler and his bunch back in 1934. Not done as of yet but they think it possible with present day tools.

Originally posted by sonhouse
http://phys.org/news/2014-05-scientists-year-quest.html

They see the way to do it experimentally now, 80 years after it was predicted by Wheeler and his bunch back in 1934. Not done as of yet but they think it possible with present day tools.

Originally posted by RJHinds
I'll believe it when I see it.

Originally posted by googlefudge
Well the experiment involves firing gamma rays into a cavity filled with x-rays
to create a high energy pair of leptons, which will emit x-rays or gamma rays
when they hit anything...

So you wouldn't SEE anything, but you could get fatally irradiated by the
experiment.

Originally posted by googlefudge
Well the experiment involves firing gamma rays into a cavity filled with x-rays
to create a high energy pair of leptons, which will emit x-rays or gamma rays
when they hit anything...

So you wouldn't SEE anything, but you could get fatally irradiated by the
experiment.

Originally posted by RJHinds
[b]"Scientists get beigger and bigger reputations the more they talk about things you can't check on."

- Will Rogers[/b]