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Light work | FOR the first time since Einstein said that energy and matter
are interchangeable physicists have created particles out of light. 

Scientists from the universities of Stanford, Tennessee, Princeton and
Rochester first used a powerful laser to create an extremely tightly packed
beam of photons. "The density of the photons is a thousand times greater
than the number of electrons per cubic centimetre in lead," says Kirk
McDonald of Princeton, a member of the team. 

They then injected a beam of very high energy electrons from a linear
accelerator into the photon beam, slamming some photons backwards into
others. The collisions created electrons and their antimatter
siblings--positrons. 

The experiment is reported in Physical Review Letters(vol 79, p 1626). 
>From New Scientist, 27 September 1997

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