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How Do We Detect What Is Happening? Energy-Mass Conversion
When a physicist wants to use particles with low mass to produce
particles with greater mass,
all she has to do is put the low-mass particles into
an accelerator, give them a lot of kinetic energy (speed),
and then collide them
together.
It is as if you stage a head-on collision between two strawberries and get several new strawberries, lots of tiny acorns, a banana, a few pears, an apple, a walnut, and a plum. |