From Lead to Gold: A Glimpse of Nuclear Alchemy at the Large Hadron Collider
Dreaming of turning base metals into gold, alchemists for millennia combined mysticism, chemistry, and pure ambition in their quest. Scientists have turned lead into gold today at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), surpassing what medieval alchemists could not accomplish. But this modern transmutation is not at all what we know of from mythology. It provides ...
