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Saturday, December 13, 2025
Scientists create matter from pure light, proving Einstein's 120-years old theory E = mc², right in the lab. For the very first time, researchers used ultra-powerful lasers to smash photons particles of light together, triggering a reaction that produced actual particles of matter and antimatter: electrons and positrons. This is known as the Breit-Wheeler process, a phenomenon first predicted back in 1934 but never observed in the lab until now.
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