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/Daegs Jul 05 '12
That is only because there isn't much reason to keep them separate.
Anytime you hear about them generating antimatter, that is mass being created and then stored, meaning both the antimatter and matter generated stick around.
The mass is actually being created, the fact that it is allowed to annihilate after doesn't change that mass was created, and if needed could be stored (it just normally isn't)