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Rahvin
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Message 54 of 59 (513940)
07-02-2009 3:44 PM
Reply to: Message 53 by lyx2no
07-02-2009 2:31 PM


Re: E=mc2
E=mc2 is a formula of equivalence not conversion. It does not imply that energy can be turned into matter.
Are you a troll or what?
That's actually incorrect. Matter can be and is formed from energy,asmatter/antimatter particle pairs:
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In nuclear physics, this occurs when a high-energy photon interacts in the vicinity of a nucleus, allowing the production of an electron and a positron pair without violating conservation of momentum. Since the momentum of the initial photon must be absorbed by something, pair production cannot occur in empty space out of a single photon; the nucleus (or another photon) is needed to conserve both momentum and energy (consider the time reversal of Electron-positron annihilation).

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