3 physicists at London’s Blackett Physics Laboratory worked out to prove a theory
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London: In a breakthrough, scientists have for the first time discovered a revolutionary technique to turn light into matter, a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorised 80 years ago.
Three physicists at the Imperial College London’s Blackett Physics Laboratory worked out a relatively simple way to physically prove a theory first devised by scientists Breit and Wheeler in 1934.
The new research, published in the journal Nature Photonics, shows for the first time how Breit and Wheeler’s theory could be proven in practise. This ‘photon-photon collider’, which would convert light directly into matter, would be a new type of experiment. This would recreate a process that was important in the first 100 seconds of the universe.
( Source : PTI )
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