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Can you convert matter into energy?

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Energy-to-matter conversion is accomplished in big particle accelerators. It takes huge amounts of energy to create the smallest particles. Don't even think about making atoms or larger structures. That's about the best we can do for the present.

-Yes, in fact this was the underlying premise of the theory of relativity. Fundamentally, matter is super-ultra condensed energy. We can see this effect with nuclear, but our technology is only about 5% effective, and still there is an extreme amount of energy released.

yes, also an example is seen in the case when, an electron and a positron combine together to give out radiations..this can be considered as energy converted into matter.

edit: The above is true, but what was only vaguely mentioned was that energy and matter are the same thing, you can't find matter without energy and you can't find energy without matter, converting matter to energy in that exact way would be turning the matter into photons, which are never at rest, always traveling the speed of light, and a photon at rest would be nothing, therefor the relativistic mass of a photon is it's speed, which is about the closest you can get to energy without matter, even in the big bang nothing defied this rule, although the universe may have expanded faster than the speed of light, this was only because nothing was there, therefor nothing was traveling faster than the speed of light and nothing was only using the energy that was something to travel at the speed of nothing, therefor it was using mass with energy still, that may be a little confusing, but that's the way it was.

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