China on brink of laser-matter breakthrough​

Nuclear weapons have already shown that it is possible to convert matter into large amounts of heat and light, but doing it the other way around, converting heat and light into matter, is much more difficult — but this is exactly what laboratories in China and the UK hope to achieve.

 

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China on brink of laser-matter breakthrough​

The “breaking the vacuum.” is more PopSci than actual science.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/starts...really-rip-apart-empty-space/?sh=1a34ad8cf4b0

According to the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the zero-point energy of empty space isn't zero, but some positive, finite value. Although we visualize it as particles and antiparticles popping in-and-out of existence, a better depiction is to recognize that, with enough energy, you can — through physics — use these electromagnetic properties of empty space to generate real particle/antiparticle pairs. This is based on the simple Einsteinian physics of E = mc2, but requires a strong enough electric field to build those particles: around 1016 volts per meter. Light, since it's an electromagnetic wave, carries with it both electric and magnetic fields, and will reach that critical threshold with a laser intensity of 1029 W/cm2.

Whenever energy is added to a system, the system gains mass. A fully charged EV battery with 16 kWh 181kg would weight ~ one billionth of a kilogram more than a discharged battery.

 

What if I were to tell you that China and the UK are just two days behind the US and guess what? Portugal.I know it sounds crazy I am in no way saying I am an insider nor an outsider your tenacity is indicative of all those I've had a privilege of meeting who are not compartmentalized. Big thumbs up to you!
As well as my nemesis

 

I bet even that expensively-produced matter will be cheaper than ink-jet printer ink .

 

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China on brink of laser-matter breakthrough​

Um, no. Not how it works. Sometimes I dumbfounded by how primitive man still is.... :: hand to face ::