Physics Meets Finance: Theoretical Consequences of Man-Made Gold

Physics Meets Finance: Theoretical Consequences of Man-Made Gold

In a remarkable feat of modern physics, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have managed to recreate one of humanity’s oldest fantasies: turning lead into gold. By smashing lead atoms together at near-light speeds, the resulting collisions generate immense heat and energy — conditions so extreme that they momentarily produce a flurry of exotic particles and even atoms with the same number of protons as gold. Could it be that the alchemists’ …

At the Great Hadron Collider (LHC), physicists inadvertently succeeded in what the medieval alchemists could only imagine: turning lead into gold. In experiments conducted by the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) collaboration, near-collisions between lead nuclei generated such intense electric fields that they removed three protons from certain nuclei, thus turning them into gold – a phenomenon of "nuclear transmutation".The transformatio…

Scientists Accidentally Turn Lead Into Gold At The Large Hadron Collider

For a long time, alchemists hoped to turn lead into gold. Now, thanks to a major scientific discovery at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), researchers have managed to do this—not with magic, but with advanced particle physics. At the LHC, lead ions are sped up to almost the speed of light. While most experiments focus […] The post Scientists Accidentally Turn Lead Into Gold At The Large Hadron Collider appeared first on Wonderful Engineering.