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ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC (www.home.cern)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The ALICE analysis shows that, during Run 2 of the LHC (2015–2018), about 86 billion gold nuclei were created at the four major experiments. In terms of mass, this corresponds to just 29 picograms (2.9 ×10-11 g). [...] While the dream of medieval alchemists has technically come true, their hopes of riches have once again been dashed.

I mean, we still can't turn a ring of lead into a ring of gold, but this is really neat.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wake up babe the latest philosophers ~~stone~~ LHC just dropped

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And this time you don't need to sacrifice hundreds of prisoners to make it work! (As far as I know).