A Scientific Discussion

In high speed accelerators, smashing two protons together with an energy higher than the rest energy of two protons(around 1.87GeV) will create a proton anti-proton pair, which I would class as energy being converted to matter...

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Originally Posted by Yamamanama

Did you mean photons? Because if a proton becomes an antiproton, all that happened is the charge going from positive to negative.

No, protons...what I meant was the initial two protons hit one another(assuming they collide with sufficient energy) and then 'rebound' off of one another and two new particles(always particle and anti-particle, proton and anti-proton in this case) are created from the energy of the protons when they collide.
Sorry about not making myself clear...

A very similar thing happens when a photon(with sufficient energy) hits a particle, the particle anti-particle pair is produced with the energy of the photon...

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Well, they think Dark Matter is made up of neutrinos (which don't interact with much), I think they said that if a million neutrinos were fired through the planet, only about 100 would interact with anything...and due to the fact they don't interact with anything makes them hard to observe...
And then if you consider Dark Matter, I suppose you have to consider Dark Energy as well...no-one knows what the heck that is...

Perhaps, if/when they find the Higgs Boson, perhaps that'll shine some light on things....

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