The Philosopher’s Stone.
We spent $5 billion building it and it produced less than a speck of gold. Got a long way to go to make it cost effective.
Gold is only one valence electron away from lead.
If only ancient alchemists had known that all you need is a particle accelerator 27 miles long.
Are they the ones creating portals to other dimensions?
Lol.
I thought this stunt was done in the 50’s.
Glenn Seaborg, 1951 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, succeeded in transmuting a minute quantity of lead, (possibly en route from bismuth) in 1980 into gold. The experiment was carried out, running particle beams through the Bevalac that took about about $5,000 an hour in costs to run. “It would cost more than 1,000,000,000,000,000 dollars per ounce to produce gold by this experiment,” Seaborg told the Associated Press that year. The going rate for an ounce of gold at the time? About $560.
They are not saying which isotope was created.
Sounds like it is NOT Au 197
Glenn Seaborg. Most people never heard of him but he was a genuine American alchemist. He created most of the elements past Uranium. He also made Gold just to say he did that too.
Now wait a minute! They can change lead to gold, but it won’t STAY gold? Sounds like a “give us more funding” scam!