What has been supposed in theory eighty years ago, it became real. A team of
phisicists at the Imperial College of London has been able to convert energy in
matter and antimatter, as the famous Einstein's formula predicted. Light is
made of pure energy and the Einstein equation establish that energy may be
converted in mass and vice versa, as E=mc**. The staff of Oliver Pike, in
London, finally, demonstred by a scientific experiment that the equation may
become a fact, transforming photons in electrons and positrons. It's just a first
step in the infinite possibilities that the perspectives open. In the far 1934,
John Wheeler and Gregory Breit, the first pioneers in the energy field, had no
expectations about their theory, thinking that nobody ever would have been
able to experience that incredible theory. Instead they were wrong. The Pike
team produced two photon beams from different sources, and let them crash
in a "cavity" called "hohlraum" (german) which has the property to keep a
radiation equilibrium in its walls. The crash between photons generated one
hundred thousand electrons complete of positrons, their correspondant
antimatter. How much time again we must wait before to convert a human
body in pure energy, and let that opposite process happens. May be the key
is behind the corner, despite Philip Warren Anderson printed that sentence
which recites"More is different". We all are made of light.
Guidonia Montecelio 19 of may, 2014 h. 12.00am. Mario R. Zampella
