Can we create matter?

Question

We have learned how to destroy things completly by introducing matter with antimatter anhilating the object and turning it into pure energy that will eventually dissapat but can we create matter? have there been any therioes on how to create matter, reverse the process of anhilation? or is it completly improssible?

Answer 1

We cannot create nor destroy matter. However, we can *make* matter from energy - albeit only in the form of sub-atomic particles. This occurs all the time in super particle accelerators. I do not know if we can yet choose what type of particle is created, although I would not be surprised if 'normal' electrons, protons, etc can be created on whim from the extreme energies involved in a super particle accelerator. Perhaps we can even create atoms of our preference, but considering how small atoms are, it is more a scientific exercise than a means of creating notable quantities of materials.

Note that the 'annihilation' of matter is in fact not a destruction, but instead a pure and absolute transformation into energy. Similarly, the 'creation' of matter is an opposite transformation: energy into matter.

Answer 2

We can't create matter. This is one of the most fundamental laws of physics. The law is called:
"Law of Conservation of Matter"

It says that matter can not be created and it can not be destroyed. Matter can only be redistributed.

However matter can be converted into energy.. this is what happens in nuclear reactions like the nuclear decay of radioactive material. Also, a nuclear bomb explodes and gives off energy, and this energy is just a tiny bit of matter being converted into energy very fast. The formula for how much energy is released is famous: E = MC^2

The two types of nuclear reactions where energy is given off are fission (splitting) or fusion (combining into one) of atoms in matter. Even though a fusion bomb exists (the Hydrogen Bomb), the fission reaction is the one most commonly associated with nuclear weapons and explosions... also nuclear power plants use fission type reactions.
Fusion reaction on the other hand are a hope for clean energy sources in the future. There is no nuclear waste - if I am not mistaken. The only problem is the reaction gets so hot. If we can ever control the reaction - it will be a powerful contribution!

... I'm not aware of what kind of process will convert energy back into matter.

Answer 3

Yes. Matter could be created if anti-matter particles collide at high energy, however the matter that comes from such a collision would be useless for practical means since there is already an abundance of matter around us. By testing and studying the processes as well as the actual collisions; there may be many new discoveries on the horizon that will benefit our way of life.

Answer 4

Matter is equivalent to energy. E=mc^2.

The conservation laws, after the Theory of Relativity, should be that matter/energy is conserved. Either can be changed into the other.

Virtual particle pairs are created all the time via temporary fluxes in the space-time fabric. These particles can become real if one of the pair falls into the event horizon of a black hole. Such is Hawking Radiation.

Answer 5

I would say that we cannot create matter or energy. Albert Einstein in conjunction with one of the simplest laws of physics would seem to apply here.

The law of conservation of Matter states that, "Matter can neither be created or destroyed." Similarly, law of conservation of Energy states that, "Energy can neither be created or destroyed."

That being said, let us introduce Einstein's most famous equation:

E=mc²

This law, simply put, relates energy and mass to one, another. It says that if you were to convert matter (m) to Energy (E), you would take the amount of matter and multiply it by the speed of light (c) squared. This results in a tremendous amount of energy for a relatively small amount of matter (for example, the atomic bomb). As for getting matter from energy, well, the only think I can think of is the "Big Bang" theory, which states that all the matter in the Universe came from an immeasurably small point of extremely high energy that was transformed into matter in one gigantic explosion.

So generally speaking I don't think you can destroy energy and/or matter, but only convert between the two.

Answer 6

I suspect the closest thing that exists today, concerning what you ask, is the formation of electron pairs when a high energy photon enters an atom and forms a negative and positive electron. The positive electron has a spin opposite that of the negative one, and as soon as it meets with a negative electron both convert back into radiation, so the life-span of this type of mass may be considered to be zero. Still, it at one time it was mass that had been formed of energy.

Answer 7

We can have interaction of electrons with the substance of space which results in the electron breaking up into components Hence aniliating the existance of the electron.
It is possible to create a mass structure in the lab but not new stable elements.
The science of chemistry synthesises elements to form coumpound matter as well as breakdown compounds into other coumpound. so we can make different forms of matter but we cannot create matter or destroy it.
The process is non reversible= no one has succeded to create an electron out of the substance of space.
Note we do have limitation we cannot create the Universe anew.

Answer 8

Negative.
Even your supposed "destruction of matter" is not an actual removal of that matter from this world. It is merely a conversion. We convert the matter into energy. And that energy is stored elsewhere in the universe by changing of form (ie: heat, potential, kinetic, spring...)
So in reality we cannot create nor destroy matter.

Answer 9

Matter has been shown to spontaneously appear in a vacuum. A particle, along with an anti-particle come into being on their own.

I don't think it 's possible to create matter using any conventional means as we have no control over what's outside of our universe.

Answer 10

Matter is matter and that's what the matter. Matter is matter because it is in existence from the start. And it is all still here!

Matter cannot be created nor destroyed. 5th grade science club!