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This would be possible by smashing photons together to create electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons. The experiment, according to them, would be the most elegant demonstration of Einstein&#8217;s famous formula E=mc2.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Read more in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/proposed-experiment-would-create-matter-light\">ScienceNews<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_tags":[],"series":[],"subject":[2873],"class_list":["post-18234","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-physics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Proposed experiment would create matter from light | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Oliver Pike, a plasma physicist at Imperial College London, and his peers have devised a plan for a device that would use a key piece of fusion equipment to convert light, a form of energy, into particles with mass. 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