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No, this is fun. It was long known it can be achieved, but it's prohibitively expensive :)
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No, this is fun.
It was long known it can be achieved, but it's prohibitively expensive :)
- dylan604 1y agoSo they were just waiting for the price of gold to reach a value that made lead=>gold justifiable? I'm expecting a Discovery TV show about the new Gold Rush. Maybe Parker will go all in?
- DrScientist 1y agoMore seriously you could argue that the whole reason for the LHC is to turn matter/energy of one form into matter/energy ( stuff ) of another. Though rather than lead into gold, it's known stuff into unknown or previously unseen but predicted stuff. So it is, in fact, a giant Alchemy machine. Newton would have been proud.
- chuckadams 1y agoParticle accelerators smash together stuff we know about in order to make stuff we don't know much about so we can study it. There's an ELI5 for ya.
- orsenthil 1y ago> It was long known it can be achieved, but it's prohibitively expensive :) Really? I thought, it was one of the Newton's doom which couldn't be achieved. When did humanity know alchemy is a real science?
- DrScientist 1y agoThe knowledge about the possibility comes from nuclear physics ( not sure about dates here - 1900-1940s? ) - however there is a difference between theoretical possibility and can actually be made to happen in the lab - I think that wasn't experimentally shown until the 1970's or 1980s.