E=mc2, Does this mean that....?

Question

If enough energy is conserved and unleashed at the same time that it transforms into Matter?

I had been taught that E=mc2 was the discovery of Energy to matter and matter to energy.

So if a human could muster enough energy could he change it to matter? Sounds like magic to me

Answer 1

Not really. E=mc^2 means that in order to structure a chemical mass element it requires a certain amount of power obtained from space to make a structure .( Refer to Henri Poincarre who originated this formula)

After the mass is now structured its essentially stable and remains into that structure unless an external power is applied to break down the structure.
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So in the case of large power being applied to the mass structure it can be made to breaks down into its components that initially made the structure and those components will fly at the speed of light with an energy of motion equal to e=mc^2.

There are some things that only our Creator can form and remains stable.

As far as discovery you cannot say you discovered energy and make it mean what ever you want if you dont really know what it is.
(See Richard Feynman on Energy who clearly states that science does not know exactly what it is)

Answer 2

E = mc^2 is a way to account for the energy stored in chemical and atomic bonds and the change in mass when atoms are combined into molecules.

Since protons are mutually repulsive, i.e., they don't like being close together, some energy must overcome this repulsion. When atomic bonds are broken, such as when Uranium fissions, some of that binding energy is released, and can be used to generate steam to turn electrical generators. Other atomic bonds actually create energy when they are made, such as in the case of hydrogen fusion into helium.

Humans have already harnessed such energy. The hydrogen bomb is a brief fusion reaction that causes hydrogen atoms to fuse into helium, which actually releases energy, exactly like the sun.

Many fusion reactors have also done the same, in an attempt to sustain a continuous fusion reaction for generating power.

Answer 3

E= mc2 means-
e =energy m=mass c2= speed of light squared

this is an equation to determin the relation between matter and energy
and yes a release of energy can result in the creation of particles

Answer 4

sophist is correct about the amount of U235 that participated in fission. But lead is not the primary fission product. If it were, then disposing of nuclear waste would be much easier. Further, the total mass of all the fission products, including the free neutrons, was much higher. The total amout of matter that was converted to energy was about that of half a dime, or less than a gram.

Most of what happens in targets of particle accelerators is not conversion of energy into matter, but colliding particles with other particles to split them or to combine them to form new particles. See the reference to understand how the release or absorption of photons affects the 'mass' of a system.

Answer 5

Look at the laws of conservation of energy and mass. Basically they say that energy/mass cannot be created or destroyed, but can change its form. I'm pretty sure that means that one form of energy changes to another form of energy, though, and one form of mass (well, matter) can changes to another form of matter.

So no, I don't think a person could manage to muster up enough energy to change it to matter. I agree with what Vincent G and Arthur C. Clarke said up there, though.

Answer 6

Arthur C. Clarke once said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".

High evergy will create matter, this is something that is done regularly in particle accelerators, where electrons or protons are accelerated to relativistic speed and smashed into a target, creating short lived but extremely massive (compared to the mass of a proton) particles that do not exist in nature.

It is not magic, it is science.

Answer 7

Matter can be changed to energy in a nuclear reaction or a matter/anti-matter reaction.

Energy changing into matter is tough, and is generally only possible using particle accelerators.

So, no, most humans cannot do it.

Answer 8

To give you some perspective on the equation, when the first A-bomb went off about 400 grams of plutonium made about three micro grams of lead. All the rest was released as energy.

Answer 9

It's actually a numeric provision with accordance to such as a slide rule may incur where as eventually the measurements with in the realm of space such as the distance of the sun or fixed point and that of a choosen or size of atom are relative in nature for later calcs to coinside, My name -- Michael J. Carter Jr. thank-you.

Answer 10

Under the proper conditions Yes

matter is energy, so then energy can become matter

you will need one hot fusion reactor, and a matter replicator, and you will be capable of creating your hearts desire.