Fission and fusion can convert mass to energy, what is the mechanism for converting energy to mass?

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Has it been observed? Is it just theoretical? Is it one of those simple-but-profound things?

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If you want a fairly extreme example then colliders like CERN produce all kinds of particles from the kinetic energy of a collision