• Question: is it possible (theoretically) to turn energy into matter, as it appears it should be from E=mc^2

    Asked by Hurricane to Nicolas, Daniel on 23 Jun 2017.
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      Daniel Smith answered on 23 Jun 2017:

      Actually E=mc2 is actually a way of calculating the energy of a system relative to the mass.

      E= energy

      m= mass

      c= speed of light.

      So its not about energy relates back to the mass of the object being identified. Its quite confusing so theres a good video which I will link, but its basically saying that from your perspective if you see energy being given off by something but its not moving then it will have lost energy, but if your moving when you see the energy lost then there is also kinetic energy being gained. Kinetic energy is also related to mass. Therefore as the energy calculated for a system used to be relative to the motion of the person doing the calculating and different to the system itself there needed to be a way to standardise so that the energy observed was the same for both…

      Its very complicated, but hopefully Nicolas can explain too 🙂

      https://www.britannica.com/science/E-mc2-equation

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