Quote from: Volgastallion on Today at 03:59:56 PM

Quote from: xhomerx10 on Today at 03:19:34 PM

Well, conversion of lead into gold is back on the table! Turns out all you need is a Large Hadron Collider and a massive energy source but it's probably going to be a while before this is a viable alternative to gold mining.

ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

"Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at the LHC generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons and transform lead into fleeting quantities of gold nuclei"

https://www.home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc
"...The electromagnetic field emanating from a lead nucleus is particularly strong because the nucleus contains 82 protons, each carrying one elementary charge. Moreover, the very high speed at which lead nuclei travel in the LHC (corresponding to 99.999993% of the speed of light) causes the electromagnetic field lines to be squashed into a thin pancake, transverse to the direction of motion, producing a short-lived pulse of photons. Often, this triggers a process called electromagnetic dissociation, whereby a photon interacting with a nucleus can excite oscillations of its internal structure, resulting in the ejection of small numbers of neutrons and protons. To create gold (a nucleus containing 79 protons), three protons must be removed from a lead nucleus in the LHC beams..."

image from CERN

For me is always facinating how in someway the ancestor was always close to some kind of certainity even in the most hilarious ways. I mean alquimist were more a magic than a science and a myth, but when we ended up having the powerfull tools and the advanced science we found they werent that crazy.

In religion also you can find some pretty signs of it. I always believe in the idea of maybe the human has already killed himself a lot of times and a few survived and this few people starts again the civilization and they count some of the knowledge as a myth trying to give the "new" humans some clues about things.

I know is dificult to understand and more with my poor english, but is a pretty fascinating theme to talk about.And a long one.

For example just imagine and apocalipsys happen and you want to let you know to people who dont know computers and maths how BTC works, how are you gonna do it, or better to say how are you gonna make them know of something like that can exist and is one of the goals to reach?

Well you make a story a very good one a myth, something like God BTC who was a guys in a mountain.........

You get me?

yeah you can ask this guy. he will fill you in on the past