Physicists studying the earliest moments of the universe at CERN in Switzerland accidentally produced gold while colliding lead atoms. The experiment, which yielded 89,000 gold nuclei per second, turned a centuries-old dream of alchemists into reality.
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A group of physicists from the Great Hadron Collider in Switzerland discovered that the difference between a lead atom and a gold atom is just a few protons.
Physicists studying the earliest moments of the universe at CERN in Switzerland accidentally produced gold while colliding lead atoms. The experiment, which yielded 89,000 gold nuclei per second, turned a centuries-old dream of alchemists into reality.