CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond at unimaginable cost

HELLFIRE

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/cern_lead_into_gold/
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01484-3

… So alchemists were right. Science can turn lead into gold. It just requires 27 kilometers of underground tunnel, a national budget’s worth of funding, and the willingness to accept a return on investment measured in atomic particles.

Well D**N! There’s goes THAT retirement plan 😃 😃

Regards

real_aurgathor

A more productive way to create gold would be using magnetars, although that would be a strictly “don’t try this at home” type experiment.

Article: https://science.nasa.gov/universe/stars/neutron-stars/magnetars/where-does-gold-come-from-nasa-data-has-clues/