ELI lasers reportedly turn light into matter

- Researchers at the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) lasers reportedly reached the Schwinger limit, producing electron‑positron pairs directly from intense laser light in the vacuum. - Social reports described the experiment as converting light into matter, a phenomenon long predicted by quantum electrodynamics under ultra‑high fields. - The physics community will seek independent confirmation and peer‑reviewed data before accepting the claim as a validated laboratory demonstration. (x.com)