Hugh and Series?????
Will this discovery help stop wicked Climate Change? If not, all the scientists involved should be censored for their indifference to Mother Earth.
Side note to Red: In all seriousness, thanks for posting this. My first degree was in Chemistry. And even though that was a lifetime ago I still very much enjoy reading about it.
As Ralph Kramdem might say, “One of these days, Alice, one of these days ... KABOOM.”
And there goes the planet.
Can they do this to create gold in a lab?
A disturbance in the force has been felt.
I would think this is the beginning of what we are going to see with small nuclear applications.
It would be endless if you could have small nuclear reactors in the neighborhood with regard to providing energy or just think a small nuclear reactor to run in your car.
The application medically would have to be tremendous also
Is there any phase of matter that includes free floating quarks that can be combined into new protons and neutrons?
Usually this inefficiency yields junk side products that have to be removed. Another possibility is that an optical isomer formed. An optical isomer is the exact chemical composition as the desired product but reversed like looking in a mirror. Think right hand and left hand. The same but different. An optical isomer can be difficult if not impossible to purify from its opposite. I’ve only personally encountered this scenario one time in a highly expensive pharmaceutical production process.
A step towards replicators to make anything including replicators.
