Energy to mass?

Karim Jana Pitre

I once heard a story from a Physics professor which said that in the Arecibo Observatory, their telescope began to listen to space in different directions to see what they could find.  Suddenly the telescope received back a wave interpreted as a signal of something detected.   When they changed the direction of the telescope to that position in space, they found something very shocking and intriguing.  There was nothing at the source of the waves listened by the telescope, in other words there was nothing in that position in space where it detected something.  Scientists and astronomers started investigating what it could be and found out that it was an extreme amount of concentrated energy at that position.  After a few days they changed the telescope back to other positions and ignored a little the finding.  After a while they check the position in space where they found the concentration of energy and strangely now there was a mass.  I can’t tell you more because that’s the end of it but this story intrigued me to the point of thinking over a month about the possibility of transforming energy to matter.  As far as I know, humankind think this is humanly impossible, but it is possible to do the inverse of this, since we can change matter into energy.  For example, if we fire up a wooden stick the heat and the burning of the stick we see and feel is the transformation of that object into an energy state which we might call for now a non-concrete state.   In 1842, Julius Robert Mayer discovered the Law of Conservation of Energy which states that energy is neither created nor destroyed.  Using this law as our support for the next arguments, we can start saying that if the total amount of energy remains constant over time in some space or system then if matter can be converted to energy then energy can be converted to matter since we still have our key element which is constant and is called energy.   This will have to be proven first mathematically, but that is not my objective in this paper.  Einstein did thought experiments for some of his theories known today, and one of them was imagining himself traveling at light speed.  Continuing with our main idea, Einstein’s equation of energy is: Energy = mass x (velocity of light)^2, so we can create matter but it will require a lot of energy.  It is easier to increase the energy of matter and to have an increment in mass.   If you spin a coin and weight it while spinning it is heavier than a coin at rest and this is because of the mechanical energy of the spinning coin.  Apparently what’s impossible is not creating matter from energy; it is shaping the matter to a car, to a house, to money, to a piece of paper, or anything with a structured form.   I believe that the key for this problem lies in the behavior of the atom.  I will leave you with this question which guided me to this conclusion: If mass is matter and is composed by atoms and everything is made up of matter why do the atoms of a chicken take the form of a chicken and why do the atoms of a human have the form of a human?   At the end, the universe, the planets, us, and all the objects, are made up by the same thing, atoms.