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Can you make matter out of pure electrons?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Importance of Matter in the Universe

Daniel Treisman: Do you think electrons can hang out and make stuff together? Here's what people had to say. "I'm going to guess no, because the electrons being all negatively charged, in other words, all the same charge and not zero, would repel each other," one person said. If there's somehow high energy, something going on there, you can make matter out of just electrons, depending probably how you, with what they interact or how they interact. But over the next 30 minutes, I'll have to be very strong; I honestly have no idea.

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