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How Alice Discovered The Conversion of Lead into Gold At The LHC

How Alice Discovered The Conversion of Lead into Gold At The LHC

Andrew Alpin

You’ve probably heard of alchemists, those medieval dreamers obsessed with turning dull lead into shimmering gold. For centuries, they tried and failed. What they didn’t know back then was that chemistry alone could never achieve their goal. Chemical reactions shuffle electrons around, but they can’t touch the core of an atom. The nucleus is where ...