Can atoms be created?
by 
Wings McClafferty
ANSWERS: 6
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From my understanding, 'in a way' is the best answer I can give. Matter is made of energy, and energy cannot be created from nothing, but matter can potentially be created from energy, so in that sense yes, atoms can be created from something else. (I think it needs obscenely high amounts of energy, like much more than we're capable of producing)
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Atoms are made from fundamental quarks. For example, 2 up-quarks, and 1 down-quark makes a proton. 2 down-quarks, and 1 up-quark makes a neutron. An electron is a particle itself. Combining these elements in a particle accelerator could form a nucleus and hence an atom.
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It can theoretically be done. It'd take a significant amount of energy (alot more than dictated by e=mc^2, because it's not 100% conversions, you h ave quite a few, say, losses to light loss). You could, as I've saiad above, theoretically make n-n*, p-p* and e-e* and then split these into n, p, e, and n* p* e* and combine the n p e to form a hydrogen atom...
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Can atoms be created by super strings or positive forces? Millions of them compacted to created electrons after the first membrane collision at the birth of the first big bang. Imagine a ball pit the space between the balls...If they were atoms they would repel each other?....eventually after force great pressure would create a negative or electron in those spaces and attatch to form atoms...after the giant membranes separate the explosion of atoms would be sent outwards to create matter and our universe? Sorry....just a theory I had ... I dont study physics...just interested
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Yes. Find a spare proton and electron that aren't doing much, set up a bit of a courting ritual, maybe dinner and a movie and before you know it they are living as one happy Hydrogen atom. They may even attract a neutron into their love nest one day and become a kinky isotope instead... Or you could create the raw particles from energy using a variety of techniques (such as particle accelerators) but this would be incredibly energy costly. But in each case we are just changing something into something else. Matter = Energy and Energy = matter you can go back and forth as much as you like but you cannot ever have matter = 2 * energy or the like. Matter/energy MUST be conserved. Which raises an interesting question about "where did the energy for the Big Bang come from then?". Creation ex nihilo and all that. Well there are possible answers but that is a completely different topic :)
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new atoms are created all the time in the nuclear fusion reactions in stars
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