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Matter from light - WTF?

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Matter from light - WTF?
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Matter from light - WTF?
May 19, 2014 at 1:14 am
Kuusi palaa, ja on viimeinen kerta kun annan vaimoni laittaa jouluvalot!
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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
Badger Badger Badger Badger Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?
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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.
It's not immoral to eat meat, abort a fetus or love someone of the same sex...I think that about covers it
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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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