Can we create atoms?

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For the first time, scientists created a tunable artificial atom in graphene. They demonstrated that a vacancy in graphene can be charged in a controllable way such that electrons can be localized to mimic the electron orbitals of an artificial atom.
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Can a atom be created?

Dalton's additions to the theory included the following ideas: That all atoms of a certain element were identical, that atoms of one element will have different weights and properties than atoms of another element, that atoms cannot be created or destroyed and that matter is formed by atoms combining in simple whole ...
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Can we create atoms from nothing?

We can turn light into subatomic particles, but even the best scientists can't create something out of nothing.
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Can we create artificial atoms?

The current through such a quantum dot or one-electron transistor reveals atom-like features in a spectacular way. The wizardry of modern semiconductor technology makes it possible to fabricate particles of metal or "pools" of electrons in a semiconductor that are only a few hundred angstroms in size.
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Can we create atoms from energy?

No, you can't build an atom because an atom can neither be created nor be destroyed.
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Why atoms can neither be created nor destroyed?



Why Quantum dots are called artificial atoms?

QDs are sometimes called “artificial atoms” because they have discrete electronic energy levels in a manner similar to isolated atoms. A quantum dot is a semiconductor heterostructure that confines charge carriers (electrons and holes) in a volume on the order of the particles' quantum mechanical wavelength.
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Are humans matter or energy?

In life, the human body comprises matter and energy. That energy is both electrical (impulses and signals) and chemical (reactions).
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Who created the world?

Genesis creation narrative

The Bible begins with the Book of Genesis, in which God creates the Earth, the rest of the Universe, and the Earth's plants and animals, including the first humans, in six days.
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Are humans made of matter Yes or no?

About 99 percent of your body is made up of atoms of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. You also contain much smaller amounts of the other elements that are essential for life.
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Can the universe create Itself?

“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist,” Hawking writes.
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Do atoms live forever?

Ultimately, even these stable atoms have a limit imposed by the lifetime of proton (>1025 years). Remember, though, that the best estimate of the present age of the universe is the much smaller number of 1010 years, so for all practical purposes, atoms are forever.
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Can we create matter?

In the standard model, it is not possible to create a net amount of matter particles—or more precisely, it is not possible to change the net number of leptons or of quarks in any perturbative reaction among particles.
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Why is an atom unbreakable?

Atoms are indestructible and unchangeable. Atoms of an element cannot be created, destroyed, divided into smaller pieces, or transformed into atoms of another element. Dalton based this hypothesis on the law of conservation of mass as stated by Antoine Lavoisier and others around 1785.
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Who created the God?

We ask, "If all things have a creator, then who created God?" Actually, only created things have a creator, so it's improper to lump God with his creation. God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed. Atheists counter that there is no reason to assume the universe was created.
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Who is the real God?

In monotheistic thought, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. God is usually conceived of as being omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and omnibenevolent as well as having an eternal and necessary existence.
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Why did God create us?

Because Heavenly Father wanted us to have the chance to progress and become like Him, He created our spirits, and He provided a plan of salvation and happiness that necessarily includes this earthly experience.
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Is time an illusion?

According to theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, time is an illusion: our naive perception of its flow doesn't correspond to physical reality. Indeed, as Rovelli argues in The Order of Time, much more is illusory, including Isaac Newton's picture of a universally ticking clock.
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Are we made of stardust?

Planetary scientist and stardust expert Dr Ashley King explains. 'It is totally 100% true: nearly all the elements in the human body were made in a star and many have come through several supernovas. '
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Can you destroy an atom?

Atoms can be destroyed, in the sense that their energy is converted to completely different forms. For example, an atom might collide with an antimatter atom, leaving only high-energy light rays.
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Who created quantum dot?

The term quantum dot was coined in 1986. They were first synthesized in a glass matrix by Alexey Ekimov in 1981 and in colloidal suspension by Louis Brus in 1983. They were first theorized by Alexander Efros in 1982.
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Are quantum dots man made?

Quantum dots (QDs) are man-made nanoscale crystals that that can transport electrons. When UV light hits these semiconducting nanoparticles, they can emit light of various colors. These artificial semiconductor nanoparticles that have found applications in composites, solar cells and fluorescent biological labels.
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What does a quantum dot look like?

Quantum dots are tiny, and their size determines their color. There are two sizes of dots in these TVs. The “big” ones glow red, and they have a diameter of about 50 atoms. The smaller ones, which glow green, have a diameter of about 30 atoms.
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Can we create elements?

You can not create new elements by mixing different compounds. In order to create a new element you have to change the number of protons in a nucleus. It is possible to do this but it requires bombarding various elements, one with the other, by means of high energy particle accelerators.
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Who created matter?

The idea that matter was built of discrete building blocks, the so-called particulate theory of matter, independently appeared in ancient Greece and ancient India among Buddhists, Hindus and Jains in 1st-millennium BC.
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