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Author here, thanks! I am not familiar with this website (science-news.co) so I cannot comment on the quality of the writing (or human origin). I agree with you
by jdbburg 5y ago
Author here, thanks! I am not familiar with this website (science-news.co) so I cannot comment on the quality of the writing (or human origin). I agree with you that "prove" should be "predict" - they did not prove anything except that from a theory standpoint, this process can happen in quantum mechanics.
The sentence about lasers is also strange, I have no idea what is meant there. My only guess is that it might be trying to describe some laser experiment that uses lasers to "heat" a hohlraum to produce a field of photons. Then some other high energy photon beam is used to collide with the photons inside the hohlraum.
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Original article from DOE press release is here with a bit more info: https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=119023 https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=119023
- dang 5y agoOk, we've changed the URL to that from https://science-news.co/scientists-create-matter-from-pure-light-proving-the-breit-wheeler-effect/ https://science-news.co/scientists-create-matter-from-pure-l.... Thanks!
- perihelions 5y agoDang, the old URL is the Google translation of a German-language magazine article (not attributed, so it's functionally plagiarism): https://www.forschung-und-wissen.de/nachrichten/physik/materie-aus-purem-licht-erzeugt-13375299 https://www.forschung-und-wissen.de/nachrichten/physik/mater... You've previously asked for examples [0] of this type of fraud on HN: so this is one example! Credit to 'smurpy' in this thread, who noticed the 'bot'-like writing style. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27295943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27295943
- dang 5y agoThank you! I have banned the site.