Is there any possibility that science will find a way to make gold from atom rearranging?
This could be catostrophic for anyone with gold investments, the market for gold could have the floor fall out, overnight.
Thoughts?
Yes, it has already been done, it cost about 3,000/oz. IIRC. Gold from seawater was a little better at approximately 2000/oz.
I believe there's a joint research project being conducted by MIT, Technion University (Haifa, Israel) and the Zirconium Research Council (ZRC) that aims to identify the lapis philosophi by 2009.
I think it has been done, but it's all nuclear physics at that point. I saw something about changing mercury to gold in the presence of a certain radio-isotope, but I can't remember the details.