Fulfilling the Dream of Medieval Alchemists, Physicists Turned Lead into Gold (Accidentally)

Physicists experimenting with a giant particle accelerator accidently proved medieval alchemists right: that base metals could be turned into gold. While studying electromagnetic disassociation and beam losses, the physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) saw that the lead they started with had transformed into approximately 86 billion atoms of gold. Don’t let the high […] The post Fulfilling the Dream of Medieval Alchemists, Physicists Turned Lead into Gold (Accidentally) appeared first on Good News Network.

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