@Gates9@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 12 days agoScientists turn lead into gold for 1st time, but only for a split secondabcnews.go.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down10
arrow-up188arrow-down1external-linkScientists turn lead into gold for 1st time, but only for a split secondabcnews.go.com@Gates9@sh.itjust.works to News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 12 days agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-square@tartarin@lemm.eelinkfedilink11•12 days agoThis will never be cost effective. Since we are able to mutate elements we know it was possible to transmitted an element into another one playing with nuclear activation and disintegration paths. Using the LHC to do this is excessively costly.
minus-square@Gates9@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglish6•12 days agoKind of hilarious, actually. All that energy to great an infinitesimally small amount of gold is a perfect microcosm of our society.
minus-square@tartarin@lemm.eelinkfedilink2•12 days agoWell, it’s somewhat an allegory of the project to send a man or colonize Mars.
This will never be cost effective. Since we are able to mutate elements we know it was possible to transmitted an element into another one playing with nuclear activation and disintegration paths. Using the LHC to do this is excessively costly.
Kind of hilarious, actually. All that energy to great an infinitesimally small amount of gold is a perfect microcosm of our society.
Well, it’s somewhat an allegory of the project to send a man or colonize Mars.