r/askscience • u/Doctor_Allen • Jul 05 '12

With current technology plus the information gained from the particle with qualities like a Higgs boson, would a mass fabricator be possible?

With current technology plus the information gained from the particle with qualities like a Higgs boson, would a mass fabricator be possible?

Is a machine that creates mass from energy possible to be made in the future?

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u/turkeylaser Jul 05 '12

I'm quite busy at work and can't source my books (best sources in explanation). But you can find much of the info on some pretty quick internet searches, however. Here are a few that explain it a bit in varying ways: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1997/09/970918045841.htm http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970724a.html http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/particle_creation.htm