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now you can create matter from light

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Physicists at Imperial College London have created a new milestone for Human civilization. They have just proved that light can be molded into matter, something nobody before now thought was possible to recreate in the laboratory. Physicists have for long wondered about the possibilities of creating matter from light and this development brings us a lot closer.</div>
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The experiment is yet to be done, but it has passed peer review as practical and the inventors are in discussions with experimentalists about the equipment to carry it out. These are exciting times because it has been accepted for 80 years that two photons of light could theoretically create matter, but there has never been demonstrable evidence yet.</div>
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In 1934 Gregory Breit and John Wheeler proposed that, under the right circumstances, two photons of light would convert into an electron and the positron(the antimatter equivalent).</div>
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Even if this theory was universally accepted by physicists to be true, when Breit and Wheeler first proposed it, they said that they never expected it to be shown in the laboratory. The scientific evolution of today makes it easier to prove the theory now.</div>
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The proposal is fairly simple in scientific terms. Professor Steve Rose and his Phd student Oliver Pike have designed the model on which the tests can be done. Their paper in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nature Photonics</em> proposes a two-step process. High intensity lasers would be used to push electrons until they are traveling close to the speed of light, directing them towards a slab of gold. The scientists then would fire a high-energy laser at the inner surface of this gold can called hohlraum, to create a thermal radiation field, generating light similar to the light emitted by stars.</div>
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They would then direct the photon beam from the first stage of the experiment through the centre of the can, causing the photons from the two sources to collide and form electrons and positrons. It would then be possible to detect the formation of the electrons and positrons when they exited the can.</div>
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Read more at: <a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-05-scientists-year-quest.html#jCp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07abe2; text-decoration: none;">http://phys.org/news/2014-05-scientists-year-quest.html#jCp</a></div>
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Read more at: <a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-05-scientists-year-quest.html#jCp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #07abe2; text-decoration: none;">http://phys.org/news/2014-05-scientists-year-quest.html#jCp</a></div>
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For this, they would require a “Photon-photon collider”. This collider would convert light directly into matter using technology that is already available. Like the Large Hadron Collider, this will be a whole new type of high-energy physics experiment.</div>
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This experiment would also recreate a process that was important in the first 100 seconds of the universe and this is also seen in gamma ray bursts, which are the biggest explosions in the universe but one of physics’ greatest unsolved mysteries.</div>
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Lead researcher Oliver Pike said that although the theory is conceptually simple, it will be very difficult to verify experimentally. But what is good is that the experimental design they propose can be carried out with relative ease and with existing technology.<img src="http://images.gizmag.com/inline/photon-photoncollider.jpg" /></div>
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Experiments like this bring us closer to understanding our own universe. They allow us to break the secrets of nature and stare in the face of the creation. Also, knowledge of Physics has an added bonus of making The Big Bang Theory episodes more enjoyable.</div>
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Physicists at Imperial College London have created a new milestone for Human civilization. They have just proved that light can be molde...

Electric Jet Engine Surfing

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ever since I was a small boy, I was always fascinated with new technology.  Whether or not that came in the form of a Commodore 64 home computer or a Sony Walkman, no matter what new and fun gadget came on the market, I wanted to have a play with it.  Times may have changed somewhat, but inside, I’m still a kid that wants to try out that new tech!  So when Doug Foden, an experienced windsurfer and snowboarder, took to the Chasewater Lake in Staffordshire last week, to test a hand-held electric jet engine device, I naturally wanted to find out what it was all about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The designer of the new device is 40-year-old engineer Adam Contoret.  He has spent two years at his garage in Stoke-on-Trent developing the water-resistant jet engine thrusters.  In a statement to the Daily Mail Online he said, ‘When I was about 14, a friend of the family bought us a model aircraft engine – and when my brother and I were testing it, we put it on a wooden board…That planted in my mind the idea of having some sort of stand propulsion for a board sport. Years went by and I did paragliding. I made this little bar with two engines and it worked…So, then I thought let’s make something that you can control the power on. It’s just me – I’m not some big company. I spoke with a patent attorney, and we put some drawings together…It’s still patent pending. I tried it on water quite a while ago using a small bar, but there wasn’t enough power. This is the first time it’s been done on a lake with an expert.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dr Contoret, is the founder and director of engineering firm Dreamscience.  He said his technology is still in the early stages, because the device only lasts for ten minutes before the batteries fail to provide enough power for it to continue. Currently, the developers are using several battery packs for the testing phase of the device.  The hand held engine is also quite heavy for users, but Dr Contoret noted that he expects technology to have improved so much in five years that the device will be approximately half the weight, but double the power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dr Contoret added that one of the device’s major benefits is that the air coming out of it is cold, and that it can handle impact with water – but he is working on a fully-waterproof version.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The JET ENGINE ELECTRIC THRUSTER Specs are as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Energy: Converts 30kw electrical energy into a combination of heat and thrust</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Efficiency: 78 per cent energy efficiency, compared to 15% in a normal jet engine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Engines: Four with 10hpw, each turning at 30,000rpm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Top speed: 50mph, with 200mph exit wind velocity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Battery life: Ten minutes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thrust: 110lbs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dr Contoret’s goal is to perfect the device, make it fully waterproof and to see it used by a team of athletes in competitive events.  According to Dr Contoret, the Jet Engine Electric Thruster is expected to retail from between £3,000 to £6,000.</span></div>
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Windows 9 Preview To Come in Q2-Q3 2015

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It might very well be only a rumor, but where there is smoke, there’s fire; and what we’re hearing is that the next version of Windows, Windows 9, is already in the works. That’s only logical, as it does take Microsoft a while to get their things together, in spite of erstwhile Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saying that rapid deployment of their products is integral to their success.</div>
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So, while the company is still “forcing” people to update to Windows 8.1, even <a href="http://news.filehippo.com/2014/05/microsoft-backtracks-pushes-back-windows-8-1-update-deadline/" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank">pushing back the initial deadline it set for updating</a>, rumors about Windows 9 are already starting to make the rounds.</div>
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This particular piece of info comes from infamous leaker FaiKee, who posted a screenshot in MyDigitalLife’s forum.</div>
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If you’re thinking that image says 02-03 and not Q2-Q3, you can be forgiven. That was my initial reaction as well, but the Windows 9 leaker has <a href="https://twitter.com/FaiKeeF/status/467429503929556994" style="color: #0092dd;" target="_blank">tweeted</a> to clarify, saying:</div>
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<span style="color: #292f33;">Upto now, I could only see Neowin News said the correct thing: It is Q2-Q3, not 02-03, nor Feb. 3, 2015. LOL.</span></blockquote>
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While skepticism surely is understandable, FaiKee has been known to leak such announcements way before Microsoft releases the official word. Perhaps this time, FaiKee is right once again. Although, whether it’s 02-03 or Q2-Q3, there’s still quite a long wait for Windows 9, to be sure. There are many other analysts and speculators who have made their own predictions as to when the next version of the operating system will be released, and they vary. The only common thing: it will be in 2015.</div>
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In the meantime, you’ll have to be content with Windows 8 and make sure that you update before Microsoft puts the hammer down and decides not to extend its deadline anymore.</div>
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Given the long waiting time we have ahead of us, what do you want to see in Windows 9? What do you want to be exterminated from Windows 8? </div>
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Windows 9 Preview To Come in Q2-Q3 2015

It might very well be only a rumor, but where there is smoke, there’s fire; and what we’re hearing is that the next version of Windows, Wi...

Flappy Bird is Coming Back in August!

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">if you’re like many mobile gamers, you played the phenomenon known as Flappy Bird. Many times. And you probably got so frustrated by it that you wanted to “flap” your phone across the room. The game became so popular it was earning its creator, Dong Nguyen, somewhere around $50,000 a day. And then, at the height of the game’s popularity, Nguyen abruptly removed the game from app stores. Many have differing ideas as to why he decided to take the game off the market, but Nguyen states he thought the game was becoming way too addictive for people, and he didn’t want to be known for such a thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In what will surely be good news for gamers who didn’t have the game on their phone before it was removed from app stores, Nguyen has announced that he is once more making the game available for mobile gamers. And while we’re not one-hundred percent sure as to when it will be available, signs point to around the month of August.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Get Ready To Be Addicted Once Again!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Actually, Nguyen hopes that is not the case at all. While it will still offer the same type of gameplay, he has also announced there will be some kind of a multiplayer component which will make it less addictive than the original Flappy Bird. We will have to wait and see what exactly that means. One thing is for sure, though – I have no doubt Flappy Birds will once again race to the top of the charts.</span></div>
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Electric Lightning LS-218 will be the fastest production bike on the planet

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No road vehicle needs a 218 mph (350 km/h) top speed. No motorcycle needs to make 200 horsepower, with as much torque as a Hyundai iMax people mover. These are figures of absolute excess – and that's the point. The Lightning LS-218 will be a truly, horrifyingly fast motorcycle, the fastest on the planet. And it's set for release this summer in America.</div>
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<img alt="Lightning's LS-218 electric superbike (Photo: © 2014 Bryan Delohery / Asphalt & Rubber – C..." height="266" src="http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_lrg/lightning-ls218-electric-fastest-production-bike-4.jpg" width="400" /><img alt="Lightning's LS-218 - teaser image lightened in Photoshop" height="288" src="http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_lrg/lightning-ls218-electric-fastest-production-bike-6.jpg" style="font-size: 16px;" width="400" /></div>
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You may notice that <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/zero-sr-2014-electric-motorcycle-review-test-ride/32015/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e8dd7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">we're getting a touch excited</a> about <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/tag/electric+motorcycle/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e8dd7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">electric motorcycles</a> right now – and with good reason. The segment is coming of age at the moment, finally beginning to deliver bikes with practical range and genuinely exciting performance to go along with all their many well-known ancillary benefits. Perhaps the one thing still missing is the electric superbike, the performance king of excess that will prove to petrolheads once and for all that the biggest, fastest, meanest bikes on the road won't be burning dinosaur bones in ten years' time.</div>
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And here it is. The Lightning LS-218 is due to launch this summer in the USA, and it promises to be the fastest production bike on the planet.</div>
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After a runaway 20-second victory at Pike's Peak last year, Lightning gave the world a sneak peek at its production superbike over the weekend at the Quail Motorsport Gathering in Carmel, California.</div>
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While these photos just show a hollow shell of the superbike with no battery fitted, Lightning has also released some truly eye-popping specs to go along with it.</div>
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For starters, the 218 in the model name refers to the bike's tested top speed – a ridiculous 218 miles per hour, or around 350 km/h. Lightning believes it'll go faster. Either way, it already holds the world record for the fastest production motorcycle.</div>
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To get there, it makes a liquid-cooled 200 horsepower (150 kW), which sits right at the pointy end with the latest hypersport machines in the market. But this is a false equivalence, as the Lightning also belts out a truly mammoth 168 lb.ft (228 Nm) of torque, nearly twice what the <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/ducati-1199-panigale-review/20587/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e8dd7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ducati Panigale</a> manages. The feeling of acceleration on this machine will be absolutely effortless, and it will flip your brain inside out. This is excess in its purest form.</div>
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The LS-218 doesn't use a clutch or transmission, it's a direct drive system. You can think of it as the world's fastest twist-n-go, so presumably in lower power modes it will be ridiculously easy to ride, when you're not out setting land speed records on the weekend.</div>
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Different battery pack options will be available depending on your budget, from 12 kWh up to the big daddy 20 kWh pack that boasts a maximum range of around 180 miles (290km), and lightning is claiming it'll take 30 minutes to top up on a quick charger. Getting from 0-100 percent will doubtless take a long, long time on a standard wall socket.</div>
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Wet weight ready to roll is 495 lbs (224.5 kg), and the running gear is all absolutely top-notch, with Öhlins FGRT forks and TTX shock, magnesium Marchesini wheels and radial Brembo front brakes.</div>
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Customer bikes can be upgraded with more than just battery pack options. The frame and swingarm can be swapped out for carbon fiber units to save weight and unsprung mass, the dash can be swapped out for a fully programmable Android touch screen, the seat unit can be customized and the bike's <a href="http://www.glynnkerr.com/" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e8dd7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Glyn Kerr</a>-designed looks can be totally overhauled using a custom graphics wrap.</div>
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This is an important motorcycle, because it's really going to be the first electric on the market that goes too fast, accelerates too hard, and reduces most riders to trembling lumps of jelly – all the things that make street superbikes so alluring and awe-inspiring. Just look at Motorcycle.com's very quick <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nztLjEs_2Kw" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1e8dd7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">test ride of the 2012 prototype</a>. The poor guy, a professional bike tester, spends three solid minutes just howling and jabbering in fear and exhilaration.</div>
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Electric bikes are exceptionally practical, we know that already, but this is the kind of machine that will take them to the next level: fearsome and drool-worthy. If I could take any bike in the world out for a test today, this would be the top of the list. Whaddya say, Lightning?</div>
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Electric Lightning LS-218 will be the fastest production bike on the planet

Lightning's LS-218 at the 2014 Quail Motorsport Gathering Image Gallery (8 images) No road vehicle needs a 218 mph (350 k...