Scientists Are Creating Lasers So Powerful They Could Turn Light Into Matter | IFLScience

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For over 11 decades we have known that matter and energy are interchangeable. The development of nuclear power has shown us that matter can be converted into energy.

Three projects top the “one to watch list” of the laser world, are planned to completely annihilate the current record for laser power, which is 5.3 million billion watts or 5.3 petawatts (PW). If SEL can truly break the vacuum, it could change the way we approach particle physics.