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Matter from light - WTF?
May 19, 2014 at 1:14 am
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/...-positrons
Quote:Researchers have worked out how to make matter from pure light and are drawing up plans to demonstrate the feat within the next 12 months.
Much as I am loathed to say this, but, describing the beginning of the universe in terms of "Let there be light," might not be far off.
This will have biblical theists wetting their pants.
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RE: Matter from light - WTF?
May 19, 2014 at 1:46 am
(May 19, 2014 at 1:14 am)max-greece Wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/...-positrons
Quote:Researchers have worked out how to make matter from pure light and are drawing up plans to demonstrate the feat within the next 12 months.
Much as I am loathed to say this, but, describing the beginning of the universe in terms of "Let there be light," might not be far off.
This will have biblical theists wetting their pants.
Unfortunately it won't. Facts just bounce off those people.
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RE: Matter from light - WTF?
May 19, 2014 at 3:59 am
(May 19, 2014 at 1:14 am)max-greece Wrote: Much as I am loathed to say this, but, describing the beginning of the universe in terms of "Let there be light," might not be far off.
That was the Big Bang. There's also the World Egg.
Quote:The world egg, cosmic egg or mundane egg is a mythological motif found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations. Typically, the world egg is a beginning of some sort, and the universe or some primordial being comes into existence by "hatching" from the egg, sometimes lain on the primordial waters of the Earth.[1][2]
This idea ended up in Modern Cosmology.
Quote:The concept was resurrected by modern science in the 1930s and explored by theoreticians during the following two decades. The idea comes from a perceived need to reconcile Edwin Hubble's observation of an expanding universe (which was also predicted from Einstein's equations of general relativity by Alexander Friedmann) with the notion that the universe must be eternally old. Current cosmological models maintain that 13.8 billion years ago, the entire mass of the universe was compressed into a gravitational singularity, the so-called cosmic egg, from which it expanded to its current state (following the Big Bang).
Georges Lemaitre proposed in 1927 that the cosmos originated from what he called the primeval atom.
In the late 1940s, George Gamow's assistant cosmological researcher Ralph Alpher, proposed the name ylem for the primordial substance that existed between the big crunch of the previous universe and the big bang of our own universe.[8]
Which just goes to show that old myths can be interpreted to mean anything if you try hard enough. 
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RE: Matter from light - WTF?
May 19, 2014 at 9:02 am
(May 19, 2014 at 1:14 am)max-greece Wrote: This will have biblical theists wetting their pants.
No change then.
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RE: Matter from light - WTF?
May 19, 2014 at 9:39 am
Ok, so if we prove matter can come from pure light, then God gets pushed into a father gap. God created the initial light!
Either way, the gaps are getting smaller and smaller. The butthurt will grow bigger and bigger.
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RE: Matter from light - WTF?
May 19, 2014 at 2:02 pm
(May 19, 2014 at 1:14 am)max-greece Wrote: This will have biblical theists wetting their pants.
How would you be able to tell? They've been swimming in watery shit since 400AD.
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RE: Matter from light - WTF?
May 31, 2014 at 9:23 am
Matter is bottled Light. I read that somewhere.
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RE: Matter from light - WTF?
July 12, 2014 at 11:16 pm
We will ever be able to use cordless tools without a local energy source?
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RE: Matter from light - WTF?
July 13, 2014 at 12:08 am
Wasn't it Moses who said E=MC^2?
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RE: Matter from light - WTF?
July 13, 2014 at 7:44 am
Awesome
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