How do you create protons, neutrons, and electrons from energy?

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Energy can be converted into matter through processes like pair production, where high-energy photons create particle-antiparticle pairs, such as electrons and positrons. In particle colliders, collisions can lead to the production of quark-antiquark pairs, which undergo hadronization to form protons and neutrons. The energy required for these processes must exceed the rest mass energy of the particles being created, with specific thresholds for electrons, protons, and neutrons. Conservation laws dictate that the total energy and momentum before and after the interaction must remain constant. Overall, the transformation of energy into matter is a complex interplay of particle physics principles.
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haha Darth Vader! =D

I must show this to my professor in elementary particle physics tomorrow =D
 

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