First time? Specifically for the LHC maybe.
Yeah, haven’t we turned lead into gold before? (A few atoms, not the most stable isotope)
How is this a “first”?
This isn’t the first time. They’ve done this before, and it’s well documented. It’s also irradiated, if memory serves.
Any sources?
Probably.
So… Not really?
Counts as long as they found a buyer in that window
And for 1000000 times the cost of normal extraction probably.
The goal isn’t to come up with an economical way to produce gold. Read the last 2 paragraphs
But consider the last several hundred years of alchemy.
I know.
To be fair, we could probably do a lot better if we purpose-built a machine to make gold. And Pb->Au isn’t even likely the most ideal path. That was only chosen to fulfill the ancient alchemy dreams.
So what’s this guy holding?
An unrelated gold nugget, two years ago, at a completely different location, for some reason.
Ohhh! EXCUSE ME! I guess just everyone knows what gold looks like!
/s
I’ve got way more gold than I can use, if you need some? Turns out Walmart doesn’t even accept gold bars, so why have them?
Have you never made small pellets of Ferrero Rocher wrapping ?
They have had greay success at turning gold into less gold.
For a split second. The creator was also immortal
