Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider successfully transformed lead into gold atoms, achieving an ancient alchemist dream through modern physics.
  • tartarin@lemm.ee
    10·
    4 天前

    This will never be cost effective. Since we are able to mutate elements we know it was possible to transmitted an element into another one playing with nuclear activation and disintegration paths. Using the LHC to do this is excessively costly.

    • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      61·
      4 天前

      Kind of hilarious, actually. All that energy to great an infinitesimally small amount of gold is a perfect microcosm of our society.

      • tartarin@lemm.ee
        22·
        4 天前

        Well, it’s somewhat an allegory of the project to send a man or colonize Mars.